Fact, Fiction, and Form : Selected Essays /
Rader, Ralph Wilson, 1930-2007.
Fact, Fiction, and Form : Selected Essays / Ralph W. Rader ; edited by James Phelan and David H. Richter. - 1 online resource (xii, 369 p.) : ill. ; - Theory and interpretation of narrative . - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Fact, theory, and literary explanation -- The concept of genre in eighteenth-century studies -- Literary permanence and critical change -- Literary constructs : experience and explanation -- Literary form in factual narrative : the example of Boswell's Johnson -- The dramatic monologue and related lyric forms -- Notes on some structural varieties and variations in dramatic "I" poems and their theoretical implications -- Defoe, Richardson, Joyce and the concept of form in the novel -- The emergence of the novel in England : genre in history vs. history of genre -- From Richardson to Austen : "Johnson's rule" and the eighteenth-century novel of moral action -- Tom Jones : the form in history -- "Big with jest" : the bastardy of Tristram Shandy -- The comparative anatomy of three "baggy monsters" : Bleak house, Vanity fair, Middlemarch -- Barchester towers : a fourth baggy monster -- Lord Jim and the formal development of the English novel -- Exodus and return : Joyce's Ulysses and the fiction of the actual -- The logic of Ulysses, or why Molly had to live in Gibraltar.
Open Access
9780814251805 0814270662 0814251803 9780814270660
Literature, Modern--History and criticism.
Criticism--20th century.
Electronic books.
PN85 / .R25 2011
820.9
Fact, Fiction, and Form : Selected Essays / Ralph W. Rader ; edited by James Phelan and David H. Richter. - 1 online resource (xii, 369 p.) : ill. ; - Theory and interpretation of narrative . - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Fact, theory, and literary explanation -- The concept of genre in eighteenth-century studies -- Literary permanence and critical change -- Literary constructs : experience and explanation -- Literary form in factual narrative : the example of Boswell's Johnson -- The dramatic monologue and related lyric forms -- Notes on some structural varieties and variations in dramatic "I" poems and their theoretical implications -- Defoe, Richardson, Joyce and the concept of form in the novel -- The emergence of the novel in England : genre in history vs. history of genre -- From Richardson to Austen : "Johnson's rule" and the eighteenth-century novel of moral action -- Tom Jones : the form in history -- "Big with jest" : the bastardy of Tristram Shandy -- The comparative anatomy of three "baggy monsters" : Bleak house, Vanity fair, Middlemarch -- Barchester towers : a fourth baggy monster -- Lord Jim and the formal development of the English novel -- Exodus and return : Joyce's Ulysses and the fiction of the actual -- The logic of Ulysses, or why Molly had to live in Gibraltar.
Open Access
9780814251805 0814270662 0814251803 9780814270660
Literature, Modern--History and criticism.
Criticism--20th century.
Electronic books.
PN85 / .R25 2011
820.9