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Narrative and its discontents : problems of closure in the traditional novel / by D.A. Miller.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miller, D. A., 1948-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fiction--Technique.
- Fiction.
- Narration (Rhetoric).
- Closure (Rhetoric).
- Stendhal, 1783-1842.
- Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.
- Eliot, George, 1819-1880.
- Local Subjects:
- Stendhal, 1783-1842.
- Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.
- Eliot, George, 1819-1880.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xv, 300 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1981]
- Contents:
- 1. The danger of narrative in Jane Austen: "Such a development of every thing most unwelcome"
- Good riddance
- 2. George Eliot: "the wisdom of balancing claims": Narrative one: the community
- Narrative two: individuals
- Narrative three: God
- 3. Narrative "uncontrol" in Stendhal: The man of plots
- Love plots and love of plots
- The end: conversation on the way.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-295) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0691064598
- 9780691064598
- OCLC:
- 6914354
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