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Naturalist Fiction: The Entropic Vision

By David Baguley

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1990
ISBN
0521373808, 9780521373807, 0521021626, 9780521021623, 9780511519420
LCC
PQ653 .B34 1990
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
2 MB (1898070 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in French
Pages
300\297
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This is the first major study of naturalist fiction as a distinct literary genre. The author focuses mainly on French naturalist literature, but also draws examples from other national traditions, particularly from the English novel. Professor Baguley questions many traditional assumptions on important theoretical issues such as the nature of literary history, the concepts of "realism" and "naturalism," and the relations between science and literature. He also analyzes a number of key works in detail. He demonstrates that, far from merely recording the external aspects of reality, naturalist fiction employs the strategies of realist art to convey a profoundly disturbing vision of that reality.

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