Trauma and Its Representations: The Social Life of Mimesis in Post-Revolutionary France - Couverture rigide

Jenson, Deborah

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0801867231 ISBN 13 : 9780801867231

Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002

Synopsis

Mimesis has been addressed frequently in terms of literary or visual representation, in which the work of art mirrors, or fails to mirror, life. Most often, mimesis has been critiqued as a simple attempt to bridge the distance between reality and its representations. In this work, Deborah Jenson argues instead that mimesis not only denotes the representation of reality but is also a crucial concept for understanding the production of social meaning within specific historical contexts. Examining the idea of mimesis in the French Revolution and post-Revolutionary Romanticism, Jenson builds on recent work in trauma studies to develop her own notion of traumatic mimesis. Through innovative readings of museum catalogues, the writings of Benjamin Constant, the novels of George Sand and Gustave Flaubert, and other works, Jenson demonstrates how mimesis functions as a form of symbolic wounding in French Romanticism.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Deborah Jenson is an assistant professor of French at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0801867231
• ISBN 13: 9780801867231
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 312
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