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Narrating Reality : Austen, Scott, Eliot / Harry E. Shaw.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2004Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781501718212
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 823/.70912 23
LOC classification:
  • PR868.R4 S53 1999eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Realism and Its Problems -- 2. Realism and Things -- 3. An Approach to Realist Narratives -- 4. Austen: Narrative, Plots, Distinctions, and Life in the Grain -- 5. Scott: Realism and the Other -- 6. Eliot: Narrating in History -- Afterword -- Appendix: On Tropes and Master Tropes -- Index
Summary: Narrating Reality offers a provocative and original critique of nineteenth-century British realist fiction and our ways of understanding it. Paying close attention to the role of the narrator, Harry E. Shaw challenges the denigration of realism that has become a critical orthodoxy in recent decades. Drawing on such thinkers as Erich Auerbach, Jürgen Habermas, and J. L. Austin, Shaw contends that realist novels claim not to replicate the world in their pages or to offer transparent access to it, but to involve readers in a process of narrative understanding adequate to grasping the complexities of life in history. Seen in this light, the works of such novelists as Sir Walter Scott, Jane Austen, and George Eliot, as they depict their own and other cultures and strive to imagine regions of freedom in the dense and constricting web of history, gain a new interest.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Realism and Its Problems -- 2. Realism and Things -- 3. An Approach to Realist Narratives -- 4. Austen: Narrative, Plots, Distinctions, and Life in the Grain -- 5. Scott: Realism and the Other -- 6. Eliot: Narrating in History -- Afterword -- Appendix: On Tropes and Master Tropes -- Index

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Narrating Reality offers a provocative and original critique of nineteenth-century British realist fiction and our ways of understanding it. Paying close attention to the role of the narrator, Harry E. Shaw challenges the denigration of realism that has become a critical orthodoxy in recent decades. Drawing on such thinkers as Erich Auerbach, Jürgen Habermas, and J. L. Austin, Shaw contends that realist novels claim not to replicate the world in their pages or to offer transparent access to it, but to involve readers in a process of narrative understanding adequate to grasping the complexities of life in history. Seen in this light, the works of such novelists as Sir Walter Scott, Jane Austen, and George Eliot, as they depict their own and other cultures and strive to imagine regions of freedom in the dense and constricting web of history, gain a new interest.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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