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Harry E. ShawPublication Details
BookCornell University Press1999Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PR868.R4 S53 1999 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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Narrating Reality offers a provocative and original critique of nineteenth-century British realist fiction and our ways of understanding it. 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. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- Scott, Walter, — Sir, — 1771-1832 — Fictional works
- Scott, Walter, — Sir, — 1771-1832 — Technique
- Eliot, George, — 1819-1880 — Technique
- Austen, Jane, — 1775-1817 — Technique
- English fiction — 19th century — History and criticism
- Realism in literature
- Reality in literature
- Narration (Rhetoric)
- Fiction — Technique
Notes
- "Harry E. Shaw here offers a critique of nineteenth- century British realist fiction and our ways of understanding it. Paying close attention to the role of the narrator, he challenges the denigration of realism which has become a critical orthodoxy in recent decades."- -BOOK JACKET
Contents
- 1. Realism and Its Problems
- 2. Realism and Things
- 3. An Approach to Realist Narratives
- 4. Austen: Narrative, Plots, Distinctions, and Life in the Grain
- 5. Scott: Realism and the Other
- 6. Eliot: Narrating in History
- App. On Tropes and Master Tropes
ISBN
- 0801436729
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