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Closure in the novel / Marianna Torgovnick.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Torgovnick, Marianna, 1949- author.
- Series:
- Princeton Legacy Library ; 4918
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fiction--Technique.
- Fiction.
- Closure (Rhetoric).
- Fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- Fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (249 pages) : illustrations, tables
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, [New Jersey] : Princeton University Press, 1981.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Drawing on a wide range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century English, French, American, and Russian novels, Marianna Torgovnick demonstrates the variety and complexity of the process by which a work reaches an appropriate conclusion.Originally published in 1981.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- ONE. George Eliot and the "Finale" of Middlemarch
- TWO. Closure in Bleak House
- THREE. "Open" and "Closed" Form in War and Peace
- FOUR. Communal Themes and the Outer Frame of The Scarlet
- FIVE. Discomforting the Reader: The Confrontational Endings of Vanity Fair and L'Education sentimentale
- SIX. James's Sense of an Ending: the Role Played in its Development by James's Ideas about Nineteenth-Century Endings
- SEVEN. Gesture and the Ending of The Golden Bowl
- EIGHT. Story-Telling as Affirmation at the End of Light in August
- NINE. Virginia Woolf, the Vision of The Waves, and the Novel's Double Ending
- CONCLUSION
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-691-62973-0
- 0-691-61505-5
- OCLC:
- 1016578332
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