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Narrative Concepts in the Study of Eighteenth-Century Literature / ed. by Liisa Steinby, Aino Mäkikalli.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Crossing Boundaries: Turku Medieval and Early Modern Studies ; 7Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (352 p.) : 4 halftonesContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789048527380
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809/.033 23
LOC classification:
  • PN751 .N37 2017
  • PN751 .N37 2017
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- The Eighteenth-Century Challenge to Narrative Theory -- Formalism and Historicity Reconciled in Henry Fielding's Tom Jones -- Perspective and Focalization in Eighteenth-Century Descriptions -- Temporality in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe -- Temporality, Subjectivity and the Representation of Characters in the Eighteenth-Century Novel -- Authorial Narration Reconsidered -- Problems of Tellability in German Eighteenth-Century Criticism and Novel-Writing -- Immediacy -- The Tension between Idea and Narrative Form -- 'Speaking Well of the Dead' -- The Use of Paratext in Popular Eighteenth-Century Biography -- Peritextual Disposition in French Eighteenth-Century Narratives -- List of Abbreviations -- Index
Summary: This collection of essays studies the encounter between allegedly ahistorical concepts of narrative and eighteenth-century literature from across Europe. At issue is the question of whether the theoretical concepts underpinning narratology are, despite their appearance of ahistorical generality, actually derived from the historical study of a particular period and type of literature. The essays take on aspects of eighteenth-century texts such as plot, genre, character, perspective, temporality, and more, coming at them from both a narratological and a historical perspective.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- The Eighteenth-Century Challenge to Narrative Theory -- Formalism and Historicity Reconciled in Henry Fielding's Tom Jones -- Perspective and Focalization in Eighteenth-Century Descriptions -- Temporality in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe -- Temporality, Subjectivity and the Representation of Characters in the Eighteenth-Century Novel -- Authorial Narration Reconsidered -- Problems of Tellability in German Eighteenth-Century Criticism and Novel-Writing -- Immediacy -- The Tension between Idea and Narrative Form -- 'Speaking Well of the Dead' -- The Use of Paratext in Popular Eighteenth-Century Biography -- Peritextual Disposition in French Eighteenth-Century Narratives -- List of Abbreviations -- Index

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This collection of essays studies the encounter between allegedly ahistorical concepts of narrative and eighteenth-century literature from across Europe. At issue is the question of whether the theoretical concepts underpinning narratology are, despite their appearance of ahistorical generality, actually derived from the historical study of a particular period and type of literature. The essays take on aspects of eighteenth-century texts such as plot, genre, character, perspective, temporality, and more, coming at them from both a narratological and a historical perspective.

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