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Impure Worlds : The Institution of Literature in the Age of the Novel /

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Arac, Jonathan, 1945-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2011.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Politics and the canon. The impact of Shakespeare: Goethe to Melville; The media of sublimity: Johnson and Lamb on King Lear; Hamlet, Little Dorrit, and the history of character; The struggle for the cultural heritage: Christina Stead refunctions Charles Dickens and Mark Twain; The birth of Huck's nation
  • Part II. Language and reality in the age of the novel. Narrative form and social sense in Bleak house and the French Revolution; Rhetoric and realism: hyperbole in The mill on the floss; Rhetoric and realism; or, Marxism, deconstruction, and Madame Bovary; Baudelaire's impure transfers: allegory, translation, prostitution, correspondence; Huckleberry Finn without polemic.