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Title Page, Copyright, Dedication 1 Contents 7 Preface 9 Introduction 13 1. Balzac: Enallages and Twists 23 2. Flaubert and Zola: Challenges to Verisimilitude 70 3. Colette and Proust: Queering Modernism 136 4. Sartre’s Bodies 181 Epilogue 210 Notes 213 Bibliography 243 Index 249 Publisher:Fordham University Press,Published:2009,ISBN:9780823248490,Related ISBN:9780823231355,Language:English,OCLC:801848603 Subversions of Verisimilitude focuses on the ways in which 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-narratives by Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, Colette, Proust, and Sartre-range over the course of a century, 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. The book discusses some of the subversive paths taken in realism and, specifically, in canonical narratives solidly anchored in the tradition. The goal here is to analyze these realist texts, regardless of the narrative mode chosen, in

Author

Andrew Parker; Austin Sarat; Martha Merrill Umphrey

Publisher

Fordham University Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780823248490

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Romance, Fiction