The pace of fiction : narrative movement and the novel / Brian Gingrich.
- Format:
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- Author/Creator:
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- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
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- Genre:
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- 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:
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- 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:
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- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
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- 0-19-189065-0
- 0-19-189914-3
- OCLC:
- 1259592572
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