Fact, fiction, and form

• Verfasst von: Rader, Ralph Wilson
• Titel: Fact, fiction, and form
• Titelzusatz: selected essays
• Mitwirkende: Phelan, James [Hrsg.]
• Mitwirkende: Richter, David H.
• Verf.angabe: Ralph W. Rader; edited by James Phelan and David H. Richter
• Verlagsort: Columbus, Ohio
• Verlag: Ohio State Univ. Press
• E-Jahr: 2011
• Jahr: c 2011
• Umfang: XII, 369 S.
• Illustrationen: Ill.
• Format: 23 cm
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Theory and interpretation of narrative
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index ; Erscheinungsjahr in Vorlageform:c 2011
• Inhalt: Fact, theory, and literary explanation -- The concept of genre in eighteenth-century studies -- Literary permanence and critical change -- Literary constructs : experience and explanation -- Literary form in factual narrative : the example of Boswell's Johnson -- The dramatic monologue and related lyric forms -- Notes on some structural varieties and variations in dramatic "I" poems and their theoretical implications -- Defoe, Richardson, Joyce and the concept of form in the novel -- The emergence of the novel in England : genre in history vs. history of genre -- From Richardson to Austen : "Johnson's rule" and the eighteenth-century novel of moral action -- Tom Jones : the form in history -- "Big with jest" : the bastardy of Tristram Shandy -- The comparative anatomy of three "baggy monsters" : Bleak house, Vanity fair, Middlemarch -- Barchester towers : a fourth baggy monster -- Lord Jim and the formal development of the English novel -- Exodus and return : Joyce's Ulysses and the fiction of the actual -- The logic of Ulysses, or why Molly had to live in Gibraltar.
• ISBN: 0-8142-5180-3
• ISBN: 0-8142-1168-2
• ISBN: 978-0-8142-5180-5
• ISBN: 978-0-8142-1168-7
• Sprache: eng
• K10plus-PPN: 655804021

Abstract

Fact, theory, and literary explanation -- The concept of genre in eighteenth-century studies -- Literary permanence and critical change -- Literary constructs : experience and explanation -- Literary form in factual narrative : the example of Boswell's Johnson -- The dramatic monologue and related lyric forms -- Notes on some structural varieties and variations in dramatic "I" poems and their theoretical implications -- Defoe, Richardson, Joyce and the concept of form in the novel -- The emergence of the novel in England : genre in history vs. history of genre -- From Richardson to Austen : "Johnson's rule" and the eighteenth-century novel of moral action -- Tom Jones : the form in history -- "Big with jest" : the bastardy of Tristram Shandy -- The comparative anatomy of three "baggy monsters" : Bleak house, Vanity fair, Middlemarch -- Barchester towers : a fourth baggy monster -- Lord Jim and the formal development of the English novel -- Exodus and return : Joyce's Ulysses and the fiction of the actual -- The logic of Ulysses, or why Molly had to live in Gibraltar