Figural Realism
Subtitle: Studies in the Mimesis Effect
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: December 14, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780801859977
Subjects: History: theory & methods; Literary theory; Literature and history; Historiography; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Semiotics & Theory; Mimesis; Literary Criticism & Collections / Theory; General; Criticism; History in literature; Mimesis in literature
First sentence: In a late essay, Jacques Barzun characterized himself as "a student of history . . . formerly engaged in the strange ritual of teaching it?"