Closure in the Novel.

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Drawing on a wide range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century English, French, American, and Russian novels, Marianna Torgovnick demonstrates the variety and complexity of the process by which a work reaches an appropriate conclusion. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses th...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Torgovnick, Marianna
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton University Press, 2017.
Series:Princeton Legacy Library
Subjects:
1800-1999
Fiction > Technique.
Closure (Rhetoric)
Fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Conclusion (Littérature)
Roman > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Fiction.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • CONTENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • ONE. George Eliot and the "Finale" of Middlemarch
  • TWO. Closure in Bleak House
  • THREE. "Open" and "Closed" Form in War and Peace
  • FOUR. Communal Themes and the Outer Frame of The Scarlet
  • FIVE. Discomforting the Reader: The Confrontational Endings of Vanity Fair and L'Education sentimentale
  • SIX. James's Sense of an Ending: the Role Played in its Development by James's Ideas about Nineteenth-Century Endings
  • SEVEN. Gesture and the Ending of The Golden Bowl
  • EIGHT. Story-Telling as Affirmation at the End of Light in August
  • NINE. Virginia Woolf, the Vision of The Waves, and the Novel's Double Ending
  • CONCLUSION
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX.

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