Liisa Steinby, Aino Mäkikalli, Michal Mckeon, John Richetti, Monika Fludernik

Narrative Concepts in the Study of Eighteenth-Century Literature

Herausgeber: Steinby, Liisa; Steinby, Liisa; Mäkikalli, Aino

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays studies the encounter between allegedly ahistorical concepts of narrative and eighteenth-century literature from across Europe. At issue is the question of whether the theoretical concepts underpinning narratology are, despite their appearance of ahistorical generality, actually derived from the historical study of a particular period and type of literature. The essays take on aspects of eighteenth-century texts such as plot, genre, character, perspective, temporality, and more, coming at them from both a narratological and a historical perspective.

Produktdetails

• Amsterdam University Press
• Verlag: Amsterdam University Press
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9789089648747
• ISBN-10: 9089648747
• Artikelnr.: 44677086

Autorenporträt

Liisa Steinby has published two volumes in eighteenth-century German literature a monograph and co-edited a collection of essays on Daniel Defoe. The contributors comprise a number of the most eminent scholars in the field of the study of eighteenth-century literature and narrative theory, such as Michael McKeon, John Richetti, Pat Rogers and Monika Fludernik. Aino Mäkikalli has published a monograph and co-edited a collection of essays on Daniel Defoe. The contributors comprise a number of the most eminent scholars in the field of the study of eighteenth-century literature and narrative theory, such as Michael McKeon, John Richetti, Pat Rogers and Monika Fludernik.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
The Eighteenth-Century Challenge to Narrative Theory
Formalism and Historicity Reconciled in Henry Fielding's Tom Jones
Perspective and Focalization in Eighteenth-Century Descriptions
Temporality in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe
Temporality
Subjectivity and the Representation of Characters in the Eighteenth-Century Novel
Authorial Narration Reconsidered
Problems of Tellability in German Eighteenth-Century Criticism and Novel-Writing
Immediacy
The Tension between Idea and Narrative Form: The Example as a Narrative Structure in Enlightenment Literature
'Speaking Well of the Dead'
The Use of Paratext in Popular Eighteenth-Century Biography
Peritextual Disposition in French Eighteenth-Century Narratives
List of abbreviations
Index