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Item Details
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REAL TIME
ACCELERATING NARRATIVE FROM BALZAC TO ZOLA |
| By: |
David F. Bell |
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Hardback |
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£31.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0252028724 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780252028724 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
25 November, 2003 |
| Pages: |
168 |
| Description: |
Portrays and is structured by the effects of the perceptions of speed in the exchange of information and in the moving of people. This work explores the decisive impact the accelerated movement of people and information had on the fictions of four giants of French realism - Balzac, Stendhal, Dumas, and Zola. |
| Synopsis: |
Speed began transforming social perceptions even before the expansion of the railroad, and the realist novel portrays and is structured by the effects of the perceptions of speed in the exchange of information and in the moving of people. |
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US |
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University of Illinois Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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