Auto-poetica: Representations of the Creative Process in Nineteenth-century British and American FictionDarby Lewes The nineteenth-century Kunstlerroman self-consciously addresses the devices of fiction and in doing so, tends toward irony and self-reflection, and prefigures postmodernism. A work of art written about an artist creating a work of art is, in a sense, a novel in which the author is a character. The essays in this collection examine the work of major nineteenth century authors that attempted to merge fiction and reality into a unified whole. These novels paved the way for postmodernists who would use the artist-novel to self-conciously focus on the genre's particular conventions, to parody those conventions in order to accentuate the work's fictionality, and to expose the oppositions between fiction and reality. This collection thus reveals not only material concerns, but the underlying anxieties, drives, and joys, which are so profoundly linked to the creative process." |
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... Dimmesdale : Art and Action in The Scarlet Letter Darby Lewes 153 13 " Twisted thinkings " : Poetry as Therapy in the Work of Arthur Hugh Clough Joseph Phelan 165 Part IV The Sibling Arts : Theory , Painting , and Politics 14 Woven ...
... Dimmesdale : Art and Action in The Scarlet Letter Darby Lewes 153 13 " Twisted thinkings " : Poetry as Therapy in the Work of Arthur Hugh Clough Joseph Phelan 165 Part IV The Sibling Arts : Theory , Painting , and Politics 14 Woven ...
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... Dimmesdale as he pens " his " Election Day Sermon ) . Such texts exalt the personal : physical passion , emotion , melancholy , and sensation for sensation's sake . And of course , they celebrate themselves and their art : Wordsworth ...
... Dimmesdale as he pens " his " Election Day Sermon ) . Such texts exalt the personal : physical passion , emotion , melancholy , and sensation for sensation's sake . And of course , they celebrate themselves and their art : Wordsworth ...
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... Dimmesdale : Art and Artistry in The Scarlet Letter " explores a novel which begins with writer's block and ends in ... Dimmesdale's Election sermon , and that the production of the sermon completes his emergence as the " only truly ...
... Dimmesdale : Art and Artistry in The Scarlet Letter " explores a novel which begins with writer's block and ends in ... Dimmesdale's Election sermon , and that the production of the sermon completes his emergence as the " only truly ...
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Contents
V | 1 |
VII | 13 |
IX | 37 |
X | 51 |
XII | 63 |
XIII | 65 |
XIV | 73 |
XV | 91 |
XX | 139 |
XXI | 151 |
XXII | 163 |
XXIII | 173 |
XXIV | 175 |
XXV | 185 |
XXVI | 193 |
XXVII | 201 |
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