The Discovery of Point of View: Observation and Narration in the American Novel 1790-1910 - Couverture rigide

Klepper, Martin

 
9783825358549: The Discovery of Point of View: Observation and Narration in the American Novel 1790-1910
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 3825358542 ISBN 13 : 9783825358549
Editeur : Universitatsverlag Winter, 2011

Synopsis

The nineteenth century, like no century before or after, witnessed a revolution in narrative devices differentiating perspective and focalization. While narratives of the 1790s were all but dominated by either strictly authorial, confessional or epistolary formats, the entire gamut of modernist techniques had evolved by 1910: interior focalization, figuralization and reflectorization, stream of consciousness, unreliable narration, the dual voice. This book explores the reasons for this development, drawing on Niklas Luhmann's theory of second-order observation and the historical changes in visuality and spectatorship. It historicizes the emergence of point of view as a central narrative technique and as theoretical concept in literature, but also in philosophy, physiology, optics, psychology and sociology. From the rise of the novel in England it traces the sources and modes of complex literary perspectives through Romanticism and the American Renaissance to the modernist novels of Henry James.

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Éditeur
Universitatsverlag Winter
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3825358542
ISBN 13 
9783825358549
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
419
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