Realism and Revolution Balzac, Stendhal, Zola and the Performances of History /

Sandy Petrey here looks at 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,...

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Author / Creator: Petrey, Sandy.
Other Corporate Authors / Creators:Project Muse. distributor.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 1989.
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