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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... arguing that creativity was a combination of nature and reason ; Romantics considered it a product of nature and imagination . In short , almost everyone had an opinion as to what made art and the artist , and a great deal of ink was ...
... arguing that creativity was a combination of nature and reason ; Romantics considered it a product of nature and imagination . In short , almost everyone had an opinion as to what made art and the artist , and a great deal of ink was ...
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... argue , still is ) an especially real dilemma . In " Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and the American Sphinx : Commercial Orientalism in The Story of Avis . " Jeffrey Cass exam- ines the Sphinx as a feminist symbol of artistic freedom . Phelps ...
... argue , still is ) an especially real dilemma . In " Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and the American Sphinx : Commercial Orientalism in The Story of Avis . " Jeffrey Cass exam- ines the Sphinx as a feminist symbol of artistic freedom . Phelps ...
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... argues that while Eliot's portrayals of professional women musicians , ( chiefly opera singers ) have received a great deal of critical attention , she does not concentrate her treatments of the crea- tive process and artistic life ...
... argues that while Eliot's portrayals of professional women musicians , ( chiefly opera singers ) have received a great deal of critical attention , she does not concentrate her treatments of the crea- tive process and artistic life ...
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... argues that Hawthorne's own writer's block is simultaneously echoed and resolved in the crea- tion of Dimmesdale's Election sermon , and that the production of the sermon completes his emergence as the " only truly heroic figure " in ...
... argues that Hawthorne's own writer's block is simultaneously echoed and resolved in the crea- tion of Dimmesdale's Election sermon , and that the production of the sermon completes his emergence as the " only truly heroic figure " in ...
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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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