| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 369 pages :) : illustrations |
| Series |
Theory and interpretation of narrative |
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Book collections on Project MUSE
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| Contents |
Fact, theory, and literary explanation -- The concept of genre in eighteenth-century studies -- Literary permanence and critical change -- Literary constructs : experience and explanation -- Literary form in factual narrative : the example of Boswell's Johnson -- The dramatic monologue and related lyric forms -- Notes on some structural varieties and variations in dramatic "I" poems and their theoretical implications -- Defoe, Richardson, Joyce and the concept of form in the novel -- The emergence of the novel in England : genre in history vs. history of genre -- From Richardson to Austen : "Johnson's rule" and the eighteenth-century novel of moral action -- Tom Jones : the form in history -- "Big with jest" : the bastardy of Tristram Shandy -- The comparative anatomy of three "baggy monsters" : Bleak house, Vanity fair, Middlemarch -- Barchester towers : a fourth baggy monster -- Lord Jim and the formal development of the English novel -- Exodus and return : Joyce's Ulysses and the fiction of the actual -- The logic of Ulysses, or why Molly had to live in Gibraltar |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Literature, Modern -- History and criticism
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Criticism -- 20th century
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Criticism.
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Literature, Modern.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Richter, David H., 1945-
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Phelan, James, 1951-
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| LC no. |
2011011036 |
| ISBN |
9780814270660 |
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0814270662 |
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0814292674 |
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9780814292679 |
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