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050 00 $aPN3335$b.C75 1994
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245 00 $aCritical reconstructions :$bthe relationship of fiction and life /$cedited by Robert M. Polhemus and Roger B. Henkle.
260 $aStanford, Calif. :$bStanford University Press,$c1994.
263 $a9404
300 $axii, 296 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction / Robert M. Polhemus and Roger B. Henkle -- Fictions and Truths / Tzvetan Todorov -- The Private Life of a Public Form: Freud, Fantasy and the Novel / Michael H. Levenson -- Comic and Erotic Faith Meet Faith in the Child: Charles Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop ("The Old Cupiosity Shape") / Robert M. Polhemus -- The Crisis of Representation in Dombey and Son / Roger B. Henkle -- Impersonal Violence: The Penetrating Gaze and the Field of Narration in Caleb Williams / John Bender -- James and Stevenson: The Mixed Current of Realism and Romance / George Dekker -- Joycean Realism / William M. Chace -- The Making of Crime and Punishment / Joseph Frank -- Faulkner's Muse: Speculations on the Genesis of The Sound and the Fury / Thomas C. Moser -- Emma Watson: Jane Austen's Uncompleted Heroine / Juliet McMaster -- "The finest and noblest book of men in war": Frederic Manning's Her Privates We / John Henry Raleigh -- Travelling Theory Reconsidered / Edward W. Said.
520 $aThe subject of this book is the relationship Henry James alludes to when he celebrates the novel's "large, free character of immense and exquisite correspondence with life." Featuring the interplay of fictions and "the real world," its twelve essays explore and expand ideas of what fiction and reality might be. They ask such questions as: How does fiction communicate truth about the world? What is the connection between perceived historical reality and the linguistic form of narration?
520 8 $aHow does writing formulate or mediate the tensions between public and private life? What exactly do people at a given time want and get from a particular novel? How does a novelist's life give form to a novel? How are reality, the novel knowledge, and the practice and form of fiction known as realism related and what might realism mean as today's critics reconstruct it?
520 8 $a.
520 8 $aIn the wake of Ian Watt's pioneering work, we tend to think of such questions as questions about the novel, and with the exception of the two framing pieces, these essays concern that genre. Tzvetan Todorov opens the volume by examining wildly imaginative accounts written about early global exploration. The next three essays focus on works by Charles Dickens - Michael H. Levenson on David Copperfield, Robert M. Polhemus on The Old Curiosity Shop, and Roger B. Henkle on Dombey and Son.
520 8 $aThey emphasize the role of cultural psychology in the writing and reception of this most popular of nineteenth-century novelists and stress the novel's historical function in mediating between "inner" and "outer" life.
520 8 $aNext come three studies of realism: by John Bender on the political and epistemological implications of power and violence inherent in realist prose fiction - specifically, in Godwin's Caleb Williams, by George Dekker on the dialectical interplay of conceptions of fiction and realism by Henry James and Robert Louis Stevenson; and by William M. Chace on Joyce's realism in Ulysses. Joseph Frank and Thomas C.
520 8 $aMoser follow with studies of Dostoevsky and Faulkner that relate key biographical experiences to Crime and Punishment and The Sound and the Fury.
520 8 $aNext, Juliet McMaster uses Jane Austen's The Watsons to illustrate how criticism can reconstruct an unfinished work, and John Henry Raleigh shows how the reality of a fictional text (Frederic Manning's Her Privates We) can come to have striking evidential power and effect. The final piece by Edward V. Said, returning us to ideas of travel and representation of life on the margin, shows the continual intertwining and merging of theory and fiction.
650 0 $aFiction$xTechnique.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85048065
650 0 $aReality in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85111774
650 0 $aTruth in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94008841
650 0 $aRealism in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85111770
650 0 $aNarration (Rhetoric)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85089833
700 1 $aPolhemus, Robert M.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79132501
700 1 $aHenkle, Roger B.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79135250
852 00 $bglx$hPN3335$i.C75 1994