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A lifetime's reading of Proust's masterpiece

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Focusing on a moment and a source in 19th-century France, Christopher Prendergast takes up a big question that is still with us: What is a classic? His enquiry, which centres on the French critic Sainte-Beuve (1804-69), who asked the question 'Qu'est-ce qu'un classique?' in an essay of 1850, takes us on a tour of the history of the 'classic' that provides insights into and beyond the 'culture wars' of the 19th century.

What are counterfactuals and what is their point? In many cases, none at all. It may be true that if kangaroos didn't have tails, they would fall over, but they do have tails and if they didn't they wouldn't be kangaroos (or would they?). This is the sort of thing that can give counterfactuals a bad name, as inhabitants of a La La Land of the mind. On the other hand, counterfactuals do useful service across a broad range of disciplines in both...

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Along with Alexandre Dumas "pere, Eugene Sue (1804-57) was the most successful popular French novelist of the first half of the nineteenth century. The present study engages with a problematic (emerging forms of popular literature), centered on a particular case (Sue's most famous novel, "Les Mysteres de Paris), and is underpinned by a specific hypothesis: the claim first advanced by the social historian Louis Chevalier that "Les Mysteres de P...

Septembers, Chris Prendergast's first novel, is a simmering tale of burning monuments, bad decisions and growing anger.

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Comprehensive survey of the debates and arguments surrounding literature around the world.

Moving deftly among literary and visual arts, as well as the modern critical canon, Christopher Prendergast's book explores the meaning and value of representation as both a philosophical challenge (What does it mean to create an image that "stands for" something absent?) and a political issue (Who has the right to represent whom?). The Triangle of Representation raises a range of theoretical, historical, and aesthetic questions, and offers su...

From the author of "The Order of Mimesis" and "Paris and the Nineteenth-Century", this book provides a collection of essays on Raymond William's theories of cultural materialism.

This book is a challenging investigation of the idea of literary mimesis in the light of contemporary literary theory.

Presenting a new approach to the study of nineteenth-century French poetry, each essay in this collection focuses on the detailed organization of a single poem. Eleven essays, written from a wide range of critical and theoretical viewpoints, cover poets from Lamartine to Mallarméand Laforgue. The method of close reading has been adopted in order to effect an introduction to the analysis of the "basics" of poetic language (sound, meter, syntax,...