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Author :Ronald C. Rosbottom Publisher :Rutherford [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ISBN 13 : Total Pages :248 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (7 download)
Book Synopsis Marivaux's Novels; Theme and Function in Early Eighteenth-century Narrative by : Ronald C. Rosbottom
Download or read book Marivaux's Novels; Theme and Function in Early Eighteenth-century Narrative written by Ronald C. Rosbottom and published by Rutherford [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Ronald C. Rosbottom Publisher :Rutherford [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ISBN 13 : Total Pages :248 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Marivaux's Novels; Theme and Function in Early Eighteenth-century Narrative by : Ronald C. Rosbottom
Download or read book Marivaux's Novels; Theme and Function in Early Eighteenth-century Narrative written by Ronald C. Rosbottom and published by Rutherford [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Eighteenth Century French Novelists and the Novel by : Lawrence W. Lynch
Download or read book Eighteenth Century French Novelists and the Novel written by Lawrence W. Lynch and published by Summa Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 1979 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the theoretical writings of the major French novelists of the eighteenth century.
Book Synopsis The Facts on File Companion to the French Novel by : Karen L. Taylor
Download or read book The Facts on File Companion to the French Novel written by Karen L. Taylor and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French novels such as "Madame Bovary" and "The Stranger" are staples of high school and college literature courses. This work provides coverage of the French novel since its origins in the 16th century, with an emphasis on novels most commonly studied in high school and college courses in world literature and in French culture and civilization.
Book Synopsis Character & Consciousness in Eighteenth-century Comic Fiction by : Elizabeth Kraft
Download or read book Character & Consciousness in Eighteenth-century Comic Fiction written by Elizabeth Kraft and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighteenth-century novel developed amid an emerging emphasis on individualism that clashed with long-cherished beliefs in hierarchy and stability. Though the comic novelists, unlike Defoe and Richardson, avoided total involvement in the mind of any one character, they were nonetheless fundamentally concerned with the nature of consciousness. In Character and Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century Comic Fiction, Elizabeth Kraft examines the kind of consciousness central to comic novels of the period. It is, she asserts, individual identity conceived in social terms--a character's search for his or her place in a precarious secular order. Understanding this concept of character is vitally important to a full appreciation of eighteenth-century comic fiction. To respond validly to these fictional characters, Kraft claims, the twentieth-century reader must recapture, or recreate, the eighteenth-century self. In readings of five novels--Henry Fielding's Tom Jones, Charlotte Lennox's Female Quixote, Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Tobias Smollett's Peregrine Pickle, and Fanny Burney's Cecilia--Kraft explores the relationships among consciousness, character, and comic narrative. Fielding, Lennox, and Sterne, she argues, question the validity of narratives of consciousness. Each seeks to define the limitations as well as the virtues of the form in representing the individual and communal lives. Smollett and Burney, on the other hand, address a readership that expects the novel to offer meaningful renderings of person experience. These novelists accept the validity of the narrative of consciousness but place this narrative within the context of the larger community. As a thorough analysis of relations between narrative and the construction of character and consciousness, Kraft's study is an important addition to our understanding of the theoretical formulations of eighteenth-century fiction.
Book Synopsis Self-Imitation in the Eighteenth-Century Novel by : Marie-Paule Laden
Download or read book Self-Imitation in the Eighteenth-Century Novel written by Marie-Paule Laden and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To the linguistic inquiry associated with Benveniste and to the current preoccupation with the nature of writing. Professor Laden joins a more philosophical probing of the nature of the self. At issue is how language serves the self and whether its role is one of presentation, representation, or generation. The author argues that the self in the works she analyzes comes to appear'' either as a void or as a series of related verbal constructs never wholly adequate or unified. Originally published in 1987. 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.
Book Synopsis The Novel: An Alternative History, 1600-1800 by : Steven Moore
Download or read book The Novel: An Alternative History, 1600-1800 written by Steven Moore and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Christian Gauss Award for excellence in literary scholarship from the Phi Beta Kappa Society Having excavated the world's earliest novels in his previous book, literary historian Steven Moore explores in this sequel the remarkable flowering of the novel between the years 1600 and 1800-from Don Quixote to America's first big novel, an homage to Cervantes entitled Modern Chivalry. This is the period of such classic novels as Tom Jones, Candide, and Dangerous Liaisons, but beyond the dozen or so recognized classics there are hundreds of other interesting novels that appeared then, known only to specialists: Spanish picaresques, French heroic romances, massive Chinese novels, Japanese graphic novels, eccentric English novels, and the earliest American novels. These minor novels are not only interesting in their own right, but also provide the context needed to appreciate why the major novels were major breakthroughs. The novel experienced an explosive growth spurt during these centuries as novelists experimented with different forms and genres: epistolary novels, romances, Gothic thrillers, novels in verse, parodies, science fiction, episodic road trips, and family sagas, along with quirky, unclassifiable experiments in fiction that resemble contemporary, avant-garde works. As in his previous volume, Moore privileges the innovators and outriders, those who kept the novel novel. In the most comprehensive history of this period ever written, Moore examines over 400 novels from around the world in a lively style that is as entertaining as it is informative. Though written for a general audience, The Novel, An Alternative History also provides the scholarly apparatus required by the serious student of the period. This sequel, like its predecessor, is a “zestfully encyclopedic, avidly opinionated, and dazzlingly fresh history of the most 'elastic' of literary forms” (Booklist).
Book Synopsis Up from the Country by : Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux
Download or read book Up from the Country written by Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 1980 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Face Value written by Christopher Rivers and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores ideas about human physical appearance expressed in French novels of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as the pseudoscience of physiognomy that influenced them. Physiognomy, which purports to "read" the body as an index to spiritual, intellectual, or moral qualities, had its greatest proponent in the eighteenth century Swiss theoretician Johann Caspar Lavater. In addition to closely reading the fictional narratives of Marivaux, Balzac, Gautier, and Zola, the author offers a critical reading of Lavater's work. He looks at some of the most compelling and explicit literary treatments of physiognomy in the French canon, suggesting that the ways authors use physiognomical ideas to render the world "hyper-significant" poses fundamental questions about the nature of narrative itself. He also shows how physiognomy serves almost invariably as a tool of sexism as it attempts to ascribe intellectual or moral qualities on the basis of corporal features. Linked by more than their physiognomical themes, these novels share similar dynamics of reading, rhetoric, and representation.
Book Synopsis The Surprising Effects of Sympathy by : David Marshall
Download or read book The Surprising Effects of Sympathy written by David Marshall and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through readings of works by Marivaux, Diderot, Rousseau, and Mary Shelley, David Marshall provides a new interpretation of the eighteenth-century preoccupation with theatricality and sympathy. Sympathy is seen not as an instance of sensibility or natural benevolence but rather as an aesthetic and epistemological problem that must be understood in relation to the problem of theatricality. Placing novels in the context of eighteenth-century writing about theater, fiction, and painting, Marshall argues that an unusual variety of authors and texts were concerned with the possibility of entering into someone else's thoughts and feelings. He shows how key eighteenth-century works reflect on the problem of how to move, touch, and secure the sympathy of readers and beholders in the realm of both "art" and "life." Marshall discusses the demands placed upon novels to achieve certain effects, the ambivalence of writers and readers about those effects, and the ways in which these texts can be read as philosophical meditations on the differences and analogies between the experiences of reading a novel, watching a play, beholding a painting, and witnessing the spectacle of someone suffering. The Surprising Effects of Sympathy traces the interaction of sympathy and theater and the artistic and philosophical problems that these terms represent in dialogues about aesthetics, moral philosophy, epistemology, psychology, autobiography, the novel, and society.
Author :George Poe Publisher :Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften ISBN 13 : Total Pages :356 pages Book Rating :4.F/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis The Rococo and Eighteenth-century French Literature by : George Poe
Download or read book The Rococo and Eighteenth-century French Literature written by George Poe and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 1987 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part One of George Poe's study proposes a working definition of -rococo- for the various arts and then provides a detailed look at the critical development of the so-called rococo litteraire since the 1920s. Part Two is a parallel reading of rococo decor (for the rococo is an originally French interior-decorative art) and of a contemporary literary corpus (Marivaux's comedic art) showing formal convergences between these two types of cultural texts as well as mutually operative aesthetic principles. The formal patterns can be seen as representing creative responses of the same general nature to consonant psychocultural demands. The aim, then, is to strengthen the case for extending the -rococo- label beyond the decorative arts to the Kindred patterns found in eighteenth-century French literary expression."
Book Synopsis Epistolarity by : Janet Gurkin Altman
Download or read book Epistolarity written by Janet Gurkin Altman and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Textual Wanderings written by Rhian Atkin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Digression is a crucial motif in literary narratives. It features as a key characteristic of fictional works from Cervantes and Sterne, to Proust, Joyce and Calvino. Moving away from a linear narrative and following a path of associations reflects how we think and speak. Yet an author's inability to stick to the point has often been seen to detract from a work of literature, somehow weakening it. This wide-ranging and timely volume seeks to celebrate narrative digressions and move towards a theoretical framework for studying the meanderings of literary texts as a useful and valuable aspect of literature. Essays discussing some of the possibilities for approaching narrative digression from a theoretical perspective are complemented with focused studies of European and American authors. As a whole, the book offers a broad and varied view of textual wanderings."
Book Synopsis Proper Words in Proper Places by : Robert James Merrett
Download or read book Proper Words in Proper Places written by Robert James Merrett and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proper Words in Proper Places: Dialectical Explication and English Literary History explores how literary history intertwines cultural, political, philosophical, religious, and commercial influences with literary production to create new ways of reading, meaning, and understanding. The text provides a delightful and surprising mix of canonical and non-canonical texts that merge many genres and literary allusions to highlight the complexities of literary historiography. Simultaneously, Proper Words in Proper Places digests the challenges of literary history and prepares readers to formulate for themselves the multiplicity of its nature and function. Drawing from texts published between 1670 and 1920, Robert J. Merrett demonstrates how the mixing and involvement of literary forms with such influences as painting, music, theatre, natural history, and notions of civility and spirituality erode simplistic ideas about the nature of narrative. His keen analysis of the traditional and experimental rhetoric of the texts serves to illustrate the double vision of the humanities and shows how the liberal arts enlighten contemporary moral issues. Additionally, the chapters probe, through their diverse models of reading, how mixed literary genres oblige us to create textual memories as our readings unfold. Merrett’s linguistic and contextual analyses heighten cognitive, psychological, and aesthetic processes, thereby demonstrating that poems, plays, novels, and other literary forms mix lexical registers and interdisciplinary discourses to counter literal-mindedness. Proper Words in Proper Places is a unique work, unsettling notions of periodicity, promoting interdisciplinarity, and countering educational indifference toward literary and aesthetic cultures. Its explanations of the diversity of literary historiography could easily inform new design models for survey courses and help prepare those about to enter teaching professions, who are expected to be familiar with the philosophical and contextual problems that motivate literary texts. It promises stimulating and thought-provoking study and invites readers to develop a sense of how literature operates as a system based on philosophical contraries and logical paradoxes.
Book Synopsis Marivaux and Fielding by : Dominique Andrew Marie Xavier Abrioux
Download or read book Marivaux and Fielding written by Dominique Andrew Marie Xavier Abrioux and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reception which Marivaux's and Fielding's novels experienced in each other's country during the eighteenth century was most enthusiastic. The nature of the translations, in particular of La Vie de Marianne and of Tom Jones , the principal vehicles of their authors' reputation abroad, was not, however, conducive to the juxtaposition of the Frenchman's and the Englishman's novels, for the translators were primarily concerned with adapting the narratives to the preferences of their own reading public. Following an examination and assessment of Marivaux's and Fielding's success and reputation in England and France respectively, our study focuses on two aspects of their narratives. Both the role of the narrator and the nature and idea of the comic reveal the complex relationship of affinity and variance which these novels share. In the first instance, Marivaux's and Fielding's narrators utilize similar devices and narratorial functions to meet different ends. Most importantly, whereas the narrators of La Vie de Marianne and Le Paysan parvenu are self-conscious for the purpose of support ing the pseudo-truth of their narratives, Fielding's narrators are self-conscious in order to underline the true-to-life nature of theirs. In this divergence can be seen the two alternatives faced by eight eenth century novelists in their attempt to establish the credibility of the novel genre. Marivaux's earlier prose narratives, in particular Pharsamon , differ from his later ones in this regard and display an affinity to Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones . Conversely, the inter polated stories in Amelia , especially the one narrated by Mrs. Bennet, exploit the narratorial functions in a manner similar to those of La Vie de Marianne . Our examination of the idea and nature of the comic demonstrates that if Marivaux and Fielding expressed similar views as to the theory of the Ridiculous, the emphasis in their major novels is quite differ ent. While Fielding is more concerned with exposing affectation, Marivaux concentrates on analyzing the different forms which it assumes. This in-depth psychological leaning is absent from his Oeuvres de jeunesse , where the importance of comic exposure is closer to Fielding's manner in Joseph Andrews . Moreover, just as the narra torial functions in Amelia are used in a way which aligns this work with La Vie de Marianne , so too does the nature of the comic. There is no doubt that Fielding had read Marivaux's novels and that he integrated certain properties of the marivaudian novel into his own concept of the comic prose epic. Comic scenes, and narrator ial roles which may at first appear to have been borrowed from Marivaux's narratives, have, however, been assimilated by Fielding into his own particular system. The similarities and differences which arise from the juxtaposition of Fielding's and Marivaux's prose narratives serve, not to establish a relationship of influence, but rather to further our understanding of the respective novels.
Book Synopsis Dangerous Truths and Criminal Passions by : Thomas DiPiero
Download or read book Dangerous Truths and Criminal Passions written by Thomas DiPiero and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1992-07-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges several traditional assumptions about the development of the French novel, notably that the novel is a bourgeois art form that rose and flourished along with the rise of the bourgeoisie; and that the novels of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were inevitable stepping stones on the road to the apotheosis of realism realized in the novels of Balzac, Flaubert, and Zola. Instead, the author argues that the early French novel articulated the French aristocracy's claims to natural ascendancy against an encroaching middle class. But like any other literary form, the novel produces and is a product of ideology, and it reveals the contradictions lying beneath the surface of an apparently seamless social structure. After the death of Louis XIV and the resulting social and political redefinition of the aristocracy, the ideological rifts in the novel's form enabled it to shift its class affiliations with the changing times. French cultural life was increasingly tinged with values determined by new configurations in the control and transmission of property, including new constraints on women's sexual behavior. Fiction that claimed for itself a rightful place in the real world began to appear. As it had during the seventeenth century, fiction continued to negotiate complex social contradictions and label as malevolent any person or group that seemed to threaten social order, notably the immoderate woman who flouted traditional conceptions of virtue and threatened to read the social fabric. This new account of the rise of the French novel is enriched throughout by close readings of both well-known and obscure novels, including d'Urfe;'s L'Astre;e, Gomberville's Polexandre, Furetière's Le Roman bourgeois, Pre;vost's Manon Lescaut, Diderot's La Religieuse, and Sade's Justine.
Book Synopsis Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century by : Theodore Besterman
Download or read book Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century written by Theodore Besterman and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
