{"product_id":"the-order-of-mimesis-balzac-stendhal-nerval-and-flaubert-9780521369770","title":"The Order of Mimesis: Balzac, Stendhal, Nerval and Flaubert","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Christopher Prendergast | Michael Sheringham\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: European - General\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 Misères 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":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47592000258199,"sku":"9780521369770","price":5361.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780521369770.webp?v=1774975623","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-order-of-mimesis-balzac-stendhal-nerval-and-flaubert-9780521369770","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}