The analysis takes up one text by each author—Balzac’s Les Illusions perdues, Flaubert’s L’Education sentimentale, and James’s The Golden Bowl—and considers each with regard to four problems of the realistic novel: the creation of physical and cultural space; the speech of the characters and the relationship of their speech to what the text suggests knowledge to be; the narrator’s authority and his interventions; and the representation of the protagonist’s experience. By mapping the representational strategies of these three major authors in the history of the novel, this study calls for a reconsideration of the ways in which all novels represent their worlds.
The analysis takes up one text by each author—Balzac’s Les Illusions perdues, Flaubert’s L’Education sentimentale, and James’s The Golden Bowl—and considers each with regard to four problems of the realistic novel: the creation of physical and cultural space; the speech of the characters and the relationship of their speech to what the text suggests knowledge to be; the narrator’s authority and his interventions; and the representation of the protagonist’s experience. By mapping the representational strategies of these three major authors in the history of the novel, this study calls for a reconsideration of the ways in which all novels represent their worlds.
Realism and the Drama of Reference: Strategies of Representation in Balzac, Flaubert, and James
168Realism and the Drama of Reference: Strategies of Representation in Balzac, Flaubert, and James
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780271061870 |
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Publisher: | Penn State University Press |
Publication date: | 05/15/2013 |
Pages: | 168 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d) |