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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... Lyall and the Slow Torture of the Novelist Georgia Corrick 67 6 Wrestling with the Angel in the House , Slaying the Monster in the Attic : The Artist Heroines in Louisa May Alcott's " Psyche's Art " and Little Women Keren Fite 7 ...
... Lyall and the Slow Torture of the Novelist Georgia Corrick 67 6 Wrestling with the Angel in the House , Slaying the Monster in the Attic : The Artist Heroines in Louisa May Alcott's " Psyche's Art " and Little Women Keren Fite 7 ...
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... Lyall , Doreen , 215 ) . The only person who offered enough to make it worth her while to try juvenile literature , was a worthy gentleman who felt it his mission to convert all the world to his particular belief . But much as she liked ...
... Lyall , Doreen , 215 ) . The only person who offered enough to make it worth her while to try juvenile literature , was a worthy gentleman who felt it his mission to convert all the world to his particular belief . But much as she liked ...
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... Lyall and the Slow Torture of the Novel- ist , " Georgia Corrick discusses how Edna Lyall's works and essays sought to con- vince her readers to take into account the hard work and suffering that the creative process requires of those ...
... Lyall and the Slow Torture of the Novel- ist , " Georgia Corrick discusses how Edna Lyall's works and essays sought to con- vince her readers to take into account the hard work and suffering that the creative process requires of those ...
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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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