Literary Criticism - General & Miscellaneous, General & Miscellaneous French Literature - Literary Criticism, Literary Movements - General & Miscellaneous, Historical Fiction - Literary Criticism, 19th Century French Literature - Literary Criticism
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Overview
Sandy Petrey explores the emergence of nineteenth-century French realism in the light of the concept of speech acts as defined by J. L. Austin and as exemplified by the history of the French Revolution. Through analysis of the techniques of representation in works by Balzac, Stendhal, and Zola, Petrey suggests that the expression of a truth depends on the same collective forces necessary to change a regime.Book Details
Published
January 16, 1989
Publisher
Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1988.
Pages
224
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780801422164