Realism and Revolution : Balzac, Stendhal, Zola and the Performances of History /

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Sandy Petrey here looks at the emergence of nineteenth-century French realism in the light of the concept of speech acts as defined by J. L. Austin and as exemplified by the history of the French Revolution. Through analysis of the techniques of representation in works by Balzac, Stendhal, and Zola,...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Petrey, Sandy (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]
Temas:
French fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Historical fiction, French > History and criticism.
Realism in literature.
Literary Studies.
West European History.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Baldness of the Present King of France
  • 1. The Revolution Takes a Name
  • 2. Castration, Speech Acts, and the Realist Difference: S/ Z versus Sarrasine
  • 3. The Father Loses a Name: Constative Identity in Le Pere Goriot
  • 4. Louis XVII and the Chevalier de la Vernaye: The Red, the Black, the Restoration
  • 5. Performance and Class in the Month of Germinal
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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