Negative poetics /

Edward Jayne takes on the literary academy with his startling new theory based on the deceptively simple premise that intentional misrepresentation is the primary function of narrative form--the lie is fiction's single most important ingredient. Unless the truth is meaningfully warped, distorte...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jayne, Edward, 1934-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City, Iowa : University of Iowa Press, ©1992.
Temas:
Deception in literature.
Truthfulness and falsehood in literature.
Literature, Modern > History and criticism.
Criticism.
Tromperie dans la littérature.
Mensonge dans la littérature.
Critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
Literature, Modern.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A short history of deception theories
  • Austen, Dickens, Conrad, and Stein
  • A homeostatic model
  • Shakespeare, Coleridge, and Frost
  • The paranoid dialectic
  • Young Goodman Brown
  • The affirmative fallacy
  • Roland Barthes
  • Three affirmist and a brief negative manifesto.

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