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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... Pierre Cynthia Wachtell 3 2 Stocking up Paper Fictions : Making , Selling , and Living the Fictitious in the Self - Portraits of the Victorian Popular Novelist Tamara Wagner 15 3 " Truth - Telling Accents " : The Business of ...
... Pierre Cynthia Wachtell 3 2 Stocking up Paper Fictions : Making , Selling , and Living the Fictitious in the Self - Portraits of the Victorian Popular Novelist Tamara Wagner 15 3 " Truth - Telling Accents " : The Business of ...
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... Pierre , 355 ) . Writers , it is fair to suppose , tend to write about things that interest them . And , since fiction writers are probably no less egocentric than the rest of us , it is not surprising that many authors choose to write ...
... Pierre , 355 ) . Writers , it is fair to suppose , tend to write about things that interest them . And , since fiction writers are probably no less egocentric than the rest of us , it is not surprising that many authors choose to write ...
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... Pierre , in which the outcast Melville creates the outcast Pierre , who in turn creates the out- cast author - protagonist Vivia ) ; to the temporally or physically distant ( Pater's Marius , or the Sphinx in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps ...
... Pierre , in which the outcast Melville creates the outcast Pierre , who in turn creates the out- cast author - protagonist Vivia ) ; to the temporally or physically distant ( Pater's Marius , or the Sphinx in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps ...
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... Pierre " examines Melville's rather anarchic hero and his autobio- graphical elements , concluding that Melville faces the same predicament as Pi- erre — indeed , the same predicament every writer faces : the equilibrium that must be ...
... Pierre " examines Melville's rather anarchic hero and his autobio- graphical elements , concluding that Melville faces the same predicament as Pi- erre — indeed , the same predicament every writer faces : the equilibrium that must be ...
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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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