{"product_id":"the-order-of-mimesis-balzac-stendhal-nerval-and-flaubert-cambridge-studies-in-french-series-number-12-0521369770","title":"The Order of Mimesis: Balzac, Stendhal, Nerval and Flaubert (Cambridge Studies in French, Series Number 12)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0521369770\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Prendergast, Christopher\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is a challenging investigation of the idea of literary mimesis in the light of contemporary literary theory. Drawing on a range of theoretical perspectives developed in and around the work of Barthes, Kristeva, Genette and Derrida, Dr Prendergast explores approaches to the concept of mimesis and relates these to a number of narrative texts produced in the period which literary history familiarly designates as the age of realism: Balzac's Illusions Perdues and Splendeurs et Misres des Courtisanes, Stendhal's Le Rouge et le Noir, Nerval's Sylvie and Flaubert's L'Education Sentimentale. The book is not merely expository however: one of the author's aims is to engage with much of the polemical debate which has surrounded the topic, in the belief that a recognition of the historical conditions determining both the theory and practice of mimesis must be recovered.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51907619717408,"sku":"NEW0521369770","price":68.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/71mFkqAUljL.jpg?v=1782244793","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/the-order-of-mimesis-balzac-stendhal-nerval-and-flaubert-cambridge-studies-in-french-series-number-12-0521369770","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}