CONTINGENCY AND CONSTRUCTION: FROM MIMESIS TO POSTMODERNISM

Contingency and construction: from mimesis to postmodernism

In this article the transition from literary realism (Balzac, George Eliot, Verga) is described as a shift from mimesis to constructivism.It is indicated how the realist confidence in the ability of the writer to represent reality as such yields to a modernist skepticism which recognises the contingent character of all fictional constructs.In spite

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