Extravagant Narratives

Author : Elizabeth Jane MacArthur
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400860822
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Extravagant Narratives written by Elizabeth Jane MacArthur and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the view of epistolary narrative as a faulty precursor to the nineteenth-century realist novel, Elizabeth MacArthur argues that the openness and flexibility that characterize correspondences, both real and fictional, reflect the preoccupations of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Her readings of the Lettres portugaises, Mme du Deffand's correspondence with Horace Walpole, and Rousseau's La Nouvelle Hlose propose an alternative to closure-oriented theories of narrative as they uncover an interplay between two forces: a tendency towards closure and meaning (metaphor) and a tendency towards openness and desire (metonymy). While such an interplay structures all narrative, the epistolary form differs from the third or first person in the extent to which metonymy predominates. The author shows how critics and editors of correspondences have attempted to control their metonymy, channeling epistolary energy into univocal meaning. By juxtaposing real and fictional epistolary works, MacArthur reveals the similarities between the two, particularly their "extravagance": ambiguity, openness, and forward-moving energy. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Leonard Hinds
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781557532350
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narrative Transformations from L'Astrée to Le Berger Extravagant written by Leonard Hinds and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though Honore d'Urfe/s L'Astree (1607-28) and Charles Sorel's Le berger extravagant (1627-28) use similar imagery of death, entombment, and renewal, Hinds (French language and literature, Indiana U.) argues that they use them to different ends. Indeed, he says, the latter is a parody of the first, and between them lies a watershed between romanticism and the reaction against it. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Catherine Delafield
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351871331
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Diaries as Narrative in the Nineteenth-Century Novel written by Catherine Delafield and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using private diary writing as her model, Catherine Delafield investigates the cultural significance of nineteenth-century women's writing and reading practices. Beginning with an examination of non-fictional diaries and the practice of diary-writing, she assesses the interaction between the fictional diary and other forms of literary production such as epistolary narrative, the periodical, the factual document and sensation fiction. The discrepancies between the private diary and its use as a narrative device are explored through the writings of Frances Burney, Elizabeth Gaskell, Anne Brontë, Dinah Craik, Wilkie Collins and Bram Stoker. The ideological function of the diary, Delafield suggests, produces a conflict in fictional narrative between that diary's received use as a domestic and spiritual record and its authority as a life-writing opportunity for women. Delafield considers women as writers, readers, and subjects and contextualizes her analysis within nineteenth-century reading practice. She demonstrates ways in which women could becomes performers of their own story through a narrative method which was authorized by their femininity and at the same time allowed them to challenge the myth of domestic womanhood.

Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Military Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 998 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Compilation of Narratives of Explorations in Alaska written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Military Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Philip Stewart
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1584659653
Total Pages : 763 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Julie, Or the New Heloise written by Philip Stewart and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 763 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel in which Rousseau reconceptualized the relationship of the individual to the collective and articulated a new moral paradigm

Author : Teikoku Gakushiin (Japan)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 742 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the Imperial Academy written by Teikoku Gakushiin (Japan) and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 580 pages
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Download or read book The Bookman written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Maturin Murray Ballou
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
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