Figures of Alterity: French Realism and Its Others

by Lawrence R. Schehr

This book focuses on the extension of realist writing toward alterity, toward otherness, in its ongoing efforts to enable individuals to speak and be heard correctly. Through a series of close readings of six authors from Balzac to Proust, the author shows the ways realist narrative engages the problem of bringing the other into the realm of the discursively representable. The acts of representation involved in that development were not necessarily...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804743339
• ISBN13: 9780804743334
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.5"