Narrating Reality: Austen, Scott, Eliot - Rilegato

Shaw, Harry E.

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ISBN 10: 0801436729 ISBN 13: 9780801436727

Casa editrice: Cornell Univ Pr, 1999

Riassunto

Narrating Reality offers a provocative and original critique of nineteenth-century British realist fiction and our ways of understanding it. Paying close attention to the role of the narrator, Harry E. Shaw challenges the denigration of realism that has become a critical orthodoxy in recent decades. Drawing on such thinkers as Erich Auerbach, Jürgen Habermas, and J. L. Austin, Shaw contends that realist novels claim not to replicate the world in their pages or to offer transparent access to it, but to involve readers in a process of narrative understanding adequate to grasping the complexities of life in history. Seen in this light, the works of such novelists as Sir Walter Scott, Jane Austen, and George Eliot, as they depict their own and other cultures and strive to imagine regions of freedom in the dense and constricting web of history, gain a new interest.

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• Editore: Cornell Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0801436729
• ISBN 13: 9780801436727
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 280