Narrating Reality : Austen, Scott, Eliot /

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Narrating Reality offers a provocative and original critique of nineteenth-century British realist fiction and our ways of understanding it. Paying close attention to the role of the narrator, Harry E. Shaw challenges the denigration of realism that has become a critical orthodoxy in recent decades....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shaw, Harry E. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Scott, Walter, > 1771-1832 > Technique.
Scott, Walter, > 1771-1832 > Fictional works.
Eliot, George, > 1819-1880 > Technique.
Austen, Jane, > 1775-1817 > Technique.
Roman anglais > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Realisme dans la litterature.
Narration > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Realite dans la litterature.
Reality in literature.
Realism in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
English fiction.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Narration (Rhetoric) > History > 19th century.
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. Realism and Its Problems
  • 2. Realism and Things
  • 3. An Approach to Realist Narratives
  • 4. Austen: Narrative, Plots, Distinctions, and Life in the Grain
  • 5. Scott: Realism and the Other
  • 6. Eliot: Narrating in History
  • Afterword
  • Appendix: On Tropes and Master Tropes
  • Index

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