| Reading Realism in Stendhal Contributor(s): Jefferson, Ann (Author) |
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ISBN: 0511983816 ISBN-13: 9780511983818 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $140.25 Product Type: Open Ebook - Other Formats Published: February 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - General |
| Dewey: 843.7 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in French |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book poses the question: what happens when reading enters the realist process? and answers it by way of a critical study of Stendhal's writing. Ann Jefferson argues that a recognition of the role of reading in representation is particularly crucial to an understanding of Stendhal's realism, and her account includes substantial discussions of De l'Amour, Le Rouge et le Noir, the Vie de Henry Brulard and La Chartreuse de Parme. Her study also draws a number of illuminating parallels between Stendhal and aspects of modern critical theory, and uses them in order to reveal the high degree of sophistication and self-consciousness in Stendhal's writing, qualities which are attributed here to the intensity of his preoccupation with his readers. By focusing on the issue of reading in Stendhal this book not only proposes a reassessment of Stendhal's own work, but also opens up lines of enquiry on the critical problem that is realism. |