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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... Little Women Keren Fite 7 Suffering the Muse : Charlotte Smith's Interior Other Laura Alexander 75 75 93 8 Creativity and Social Power in Jane Austen's Emma Michelle Ruggaber Dougherty 101 9 " In Abhorring Mediocrity , Admiring ...
... Little Women Keren Fite 7 Suffering the Muse : Charlotte Smith's Interior Other Laura Alexander 75 75 93 8 Creativity and Social Power in Jane Austen's Emma Michelle Ruggaber Dougherty 101 9 " In Abhorring Mediocrity , Admiring ...
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... Little Women , 357 ) . " Suppose now , " cried Mr. Smith , palpably swelling with the importance of his idea , — " suppose you were to WRITE A NOVEL ! THERE ! You don't know how happy it would make you . Look at me . I always used to be ...
... Little Women , 357 ) . " Suppose now , " cried Mr. Smith , palpably swelling with the importance of his idea , — " suppose you were to WRITE A NOVEL ! THERE ! You don't know how happy it would make you . Look at me . I always used to be ...
Page x
... little supplication can't hurt . This association with art and the supernatural can also be found in Democritus , who supposedly called the poet a " divine madman . " Even Plato , who considered poets to be liars for the most part ...
... little supplication can't hurt . This association with art and the supernatural can also be found in Democritus , who supposedly called the poet a " divine madman . " Even Plato , who considered poets to be liars for the most part ...
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... the Attic : The Artist Heroines in Louisa May Alcott's ' Psyche's Art ' and Little Women " uses the patriarchal view of the female artist as inferior xii Introduction : A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Protagonist.
... the Attic : The Artist Heroines in Louisa May Alcott's ' Psyche's Art ' and Little Women " uses the patriarchal view of the female artist as inferior xii Introduction : A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Protagonist.
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... little critical analysis in a co- herent collection.4 The mere notion of considering the genesis of the artist is new to artists themselves , and thus newer still to readers and critics . Once thought of as the recipients of divine ...
... little critical analysis in a co- herent collection.4 The mere notion of considering the genesis of the artist is new to artists themselves , and thus newer still to readers and critics . Once thought of as the recipients of divine ...
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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