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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Page vii
... Künstlerroman in Britain and America Part I Selling One's Self : The Artist and the Marketplace ix xi 1 A Writer's Writer : Herman Melville and the Crafting of Pierre Cynthia Wachtell 3 2 Stocking up Paper Fictions : Making , Selling ...
... Künstlerroman in Britain and America Part I Selling One's Self : The Artist and the Marketplace ix xi 1 A Writer's Writer : Herman Melville and the Crafting of Pierre Cynthia Wachtell 3 2 Stocking up Paper Fictions : Making , Selling ...
Page ix
... Künstlerroman in Britain and America People talk as if art were a mere pastime , to be taken up or laid aside at will ... Kunstlerroman " ( " artist novel " ) — began to appear . Why the delay ? Authors had been around for quite a while ...
... Künstlerroman in Britain and America People talk as if art were a mere pastime , to be taken up or laid aside at will ... Kunstlerroman " ( " artist novel " ) — began to appear . Why the delay ? Authors had been around for quite a while ...
Page x
... Kunstlerroman had to wait for the liberating and confes- sional nature of Romanticism . When the novel first began to develop in the seven- teenth and eighteenth centuries , neoclassicism dominated literary theory and pro- duction , and ...
... Kunstlerroman had to wait for the liberating and confes- sional nature of Romanticism . When the novel first began to develop in the seven- teenth and eighteenth centuries , neoclassicism dominated literary theory and pro- duction , and ...
Page xi
... Kunstler- roman , a self - reflexive account of the poet - artist's desire for the authority to be a ' mighty Poet ... Künstlerroman in Britain and America xi.
... Kunstler- roman , a self - reflexive account of the poet - artist's desire for the authority to be a ' mighty Poet ... Künstlerroman in Britain and America xi.
Page xii
... Kunstlerroman de- tails the unsuccessful attempts of a fully mature female artist to manage both her art and the burdens imposed by the domestic sphere . Both art and the maintenance of a home are full - time jobs — and brutally hard ...
... Kunstlerroman de- tails the unsuccessful attempts of a fully mature female artist to manage both her art and the burdens imposed by the domestic sphere . Both art and the maintenance of a home are full - time jobs — and brutally hard ...
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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