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From: Nineteenth-Century French Studies
Date: 20000922
Author:Viti, Robert M.

Pagano, Tullio. Experimental Fictions: From Emile Zola's Naturalism to Giovanni Verga's Verism. London: Associated U Presses, 1999. Pp 189. ISBN 0-8386-375

Professor Pagano has written an ambitious book, indeed. Along with analysis of Verga's and Zola's fiction, he discusses much theory, from Althusser to Bahktin, from the many and innovative uses by both authors of le style indirect libre to the difference between symbol and allegory. Chapters 2, "From History to Poetics," and 4, "Between Symbol and Allegory," present the basic theoretical constructs upon which Professor ...

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