Narrating Reality: Austen, Scott, Eliot - Couverture rigide

Shaw, Harry E.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0801436729 ISBN 13 : 9780801436727

Editeur : Cornell University Press, 1999

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Harry E. Shaw is Professor of English at Cornell University. He is the author of Narrating Reality: Austen, Scott, Eliot, also published by Cornell University Press, and coauthor of Reading the Nineteenth-Century Novel: Austen to Eliot.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cornell University Press
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0801436729
• ISBN 13: 9780801436727
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304
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