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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464361503321

Autore

Schehr Lawrence R

Titolo

Subversions of verisimilitude [[electronic resource] ] : reading narrative from Balzac to Sartre / / Lawrence R. Schehr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Fordham University Press, 2009

ISBN

0-8232-4849-6

0-8232-4109-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 241 p.)

Disciplina

843/.70912

Soggetti

French fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

French fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Realism in literature

Probability in literature

Narration (Rhetoric)

Discourse analysis, Narrative

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

This title focuses on the way a number of French literary narratives written in the realist tradition show a dynamic balance between the desire of the author/narrator to present a verisimilar world and the need for aesthetic balance. While the works studied range from 1835 to 1938, they share a perspective on the relations between and the need to engage questions of realist verisimilitude and narrative interest and aesthetics.