Narrative Concepts in the Study of Eighteenth-Century Literature /

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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, act...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Birke, Dorothee (Contribuidor), Fludernik, Monika (Contribuidor), Ikonen, Teemu (Contribuidor), Kukkonen, Karin (Contribuidor), McKeon, Michael (Contribuidor), Mäkikalli, Aino (Contribuidor, Editor ), Nitschke, Claudia (Contribuidor), Pritchard, Penny (Contribuidor), Richetti, John (Contribuidor), Rogers, Pat (Contribuidor), Steinby, Liisa (Contribuidor, Editor ), Waldschmidt, Christine (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2017]
Colección:Crossing Boundaries: Turku Medieval and Early Modern Studies ; 7
Temas:
European fiction > 18th century > History and criticism.
European prose literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Narration (Rhetoric) > History > 18th century.
Narration (Rhetoric) > 18th century > History and criticism.
Early Modern Studies.
History, Art History, and Archaeology.
HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century.
eighteenth-century literature.
historical narratology.
narrative theory.
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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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