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The Narratology of Observation : Studies in a Technique of European Literary Realism / Martin Wagner.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Paradigms : Literature and the Human Sciences ; 7Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2018]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (IX, 183 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110595185
  • 9783110593594
  • 9783110594348
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 410
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Table of Figures -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Description and Narration -- Chapter 2: Before Observation (Le Diable boiteux) -- Chapter 3: Observation (Les Nuits de Paris) -- Chapter 4: Failing Observations -- Chapter 5: Another Form of Observation? (Sherlock Holmes) -- Conclusion: Literary Observation after 1900 -- Bibliography -- Index
Dissertation note: Dissertation Yale 2014. Summary: How does literature evoke reality? This book takes cues from the history of scientific observation to provide a new approach to this longstanding question of literary studies. It reconstructs a narrative technique of ‘literary’ observation in which reality appears by mimicking processes of visual perception, and it traces the functioning of this technique through a wide range of European fiction from the early 18th to the late 19th centuries.

Dissertation Yale 2014.

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Table of Figures -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Description and Narration -- Chapter 2: Before Observation (Le Diable boiteux) -- Chapter 3: Observation (Les Nuits de Paris) -- Chapter 4: Failing Observations -- Chapter 5: Another Form of Observation? (Sherlock Holmes) -- Conclusion: Literary Observation after 1900 -- Bibliography -- Index

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How does literature evoke reality? This book takes cues from the history of scientific observation to provide a new approach to this longstanding question of literary studies. It reconstructs a narrative technique of ‘literary’ observation in which reality appears by mimicking processes of visual perception, and it traces the functioning of this technique through a wide range of European fiction from the early 18th to the late 19th centuries.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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