In Realism and the Drama of Reference, Meili Steele brings the
problem of reference--how language discloses the world--into
contemporary critical debates about representation. He explores the
potential of reference in the work of three authors in the
realistic tradition: Balzac, Flaubert, and James. By defining
realism in terms of linguistic practices instead of
representational accuracy, this study liberates reference from
traditional realist concerns with the empirical universe. Realism
thus becomes only one kind of referential practice.
The analysis takes up one text by each author--Balzac's Les
Illusions perdues, Flaubert's L'Education sentimentale, and James's
The Golden Bowl--and considers each with regard to four problems of
the realistic novel: the creation of physical and cultural space;
the speech of the characters and the relationship of their speech
to what the text suggests knowledge to be; the narrator's authority
and his interventions; and the representation of the protagonist's
experience. By mapping the representational strategies of these
three major authors in the history of the novel, this study calls
for a reconsideration of the ways in which all novels represent
their worlds.
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