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.
• 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