Narrative Concepts in the Study of Eighteenth-Century Literature
This collection of essays studies the encounter between allegedly ahistorical concepts of narrative and eighteenth-century literature from across Europe. At issue is the question of whether the theoretical concepts underpinning narratology are, despite their appearance of ahistorical generality, act...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam
Amsterdam University Press
2017
Amsterdam : 2017. |
| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Crossing boundaries: Turku medieval and early modern studies ;
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009425220106719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
