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The story of fictional truth : realism from the death to the rise of the novel
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The story of fictional truth : realism from the death to the rise of the novel / Paul Dawson.
ISBN
9780814215470
0814215475
9780814282731
0814282733
0814258646
9780814258644
Publication
Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2023]
Physical Description
x, 246 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary
"Challenges prevailing accounts of the novel's rise to reveal how changing concepts of fictionality have shaped the realist novel from the eighteenth through the twenty-first centuries"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 01, 2023
Series
Theory and interpretation of narrative
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-240) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Literary history and the theory of reflexive realism
From digressions to intrusions : the historical paradox of authorial commentary
Against sympathy : the self-examining heroine and the origins of free indirect discourse
Interiority and the end of consciousness : from the conduct scene to the sex scene
Dying to tell about it : the autothanatographic impulse of first-person narration
Beyond the threshold : accounting for the self as other
Conclusion: The exhaustion of fictionality : metamodernism and the (auto)fictional pact.
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