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Narrative Concepts in the Study of Eighteenth-Century Literature /

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This collection of essays studies the encounter between allegedly ahistorical concepts of narratology and eighteenth-century literature. It questions whether the general concepts of narratology are as such applicable to historically specific fields, or whether they need further specification. Furthe...

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Další autoři: Mäkikalli, Aino (Editor), Steinby, Liisa (Editor)
Médium: Elektronický zdroj E-kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2017.
Edice:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Témata:
Narration (Rhetoric)
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Literary theory.
Literature: history and criticism.
Literature and literary studies.
Narration > 18e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Narration (Rhetoric) > 18th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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  • Introduction : the place of narratology in the historical study of eighteenth-century literature
  • The eighteenth-century challenge to narrative theory
  • Formalism and historicity reconciled in Henry Fielding's Tom Jones
  • Perspective and focalization in eighteenth-century descriptions
  • Temporality in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe
  • Temporality, subjectivity and the representation of characters in the eighteenth-century novel: from Defoe's Moll Flanders to Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre
  • Authorial narration reconsidered: Eliza Haywood's Betsy Thoughtless, Anonymous' Charlotte Summers, and the problem of authority in the mid-eighteenth-century novel
  • Problems of tellability in German eighteenth-century criticism and novel-writing
  • Immediacy: the function of embedded narratives in Wieland's Don Sylvio
  • The tension between idea and narrative form: the example as a narrative structure in Enlightenment literature
  • 'Speaking well of the dead': characterization in the early modern funeral sermon
  • The use of paratext in popular eighteenth-century biography: the case of Edmund Curll
  • Peritextual disposition in French eighteenth-century narratives.

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