Acts of Fiction: Resistance and Resolution from Sade to Baudelaire

by Francoise Denis, Scott Carpenter, Cheick M. Cherif Keita, et al.

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The idea that narrative operates as a symbolic resolution of realities that are undesirable, uncontrollable, or unbearable has gained considerable currency in fields as diverse as Marxist criticism and Lacanian psychoanalysis. What has received less attention is that narratives largely lose their effectiveness when their symbolic nature is uncovered, when the resolutions they offer are revealed to be ''merely'' symbolic. Acts of Fiction demonstrates...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0271014490

ISBN13:9780271014494

Release Date:November 1995

Publisher:Penn State University Press

Length:190 Pages

Weight:0.70 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Anthologies & Literary Collections Contemporary Education & Reference Foreign Language Foreign Language Dictionaries & Thesauruses Foreign Language Fiction Foreign Language Learning Foreign Language Study Foreign Language Study & Reference Foreign Languages

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