| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-210) and index.
Contents: 1. Balzac: the power of lying and the irony of power. Descriptive ironyand knowledge: historical change as social difference. Narrative ironyand power: society as historical differentiation. Irony of narrativeirony: power, renunciation, and repetition -- 2. Descriptive andnarrative self-deception: Flaubert's allegory of parody. Temporalizing,interiorizing, and textualizing Balzacian space. Parodying romanticdiscourse's descriptive aspect. Parodying discourse's narrative aspect:from lying to forgetting. Beyond parody: from forgetting to repetition-- 3. Forgetting and beyond: Zola and allegory. History, consciousness,and reversibility. Spatializing time: history, the descriptive, andforgetting. Forgetting forgetting: beyond historicism and beyond thedescriptive. |
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