The pace of fiction : narrative movement and the novel / Brian Gingrich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gingrich, Brian, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fiction--History and criticism.

Fiction.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Description (Rhetoric).

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (190 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Summary:

This study traces transformations in the pacing of prose fiction from the rise of the novel through realism and modernism--from Fielding, Goethe, and Austen to Flaubert, Henry James, and Joyce.

Contents:

Intro

Halftitle page

Title page

Copyright page

Acknowledgments

Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction

1. Narrative Discourse, Literary History

Scene and Summary Resurrected

Traditions Classical and Modern

Lens, Loci, Foci, Ellipse

Narrative Movement and Modernity

2. Rise of the Scene-and-Summary Novel

Fielding and the Prosai-Comi-Epic

Goethe on Epic and Drama

The Novel Intersected

One Day, the West, and the World

3. Realist Pace

Reality Principle, Reality Effect

Senses of Scene

Middlemarch

In Which the Story Pauses a Little, and Looks Forward

4. Collapse of the Scenic Method

And When I Draw Up the Curtain This Time, Reader

Kindly Time

The Scenic Method

Wandering Steps and Slow

5. Epiphanic and Everyday Modernisms

Interepisodic

Epiphany

Everyday

By the Ocean of Time

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-189065-0

0-19-189914-3

OCLC:

1259592572