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 xi
... creating a spiritual biography and tangible identity . " In order to alleviate any future anxiety , the [ German ] ... create a literary asylum " ( 22 ) . Like Wilhelm , British and American artist - protagonists are often at odds with ...
... creating a spiritual biography and tangible identity . " In order to alleviate any future anxiety , the [ German ] ... create a literary asylum " ( 22 ) . Like Wilhelm , British and American artist - protagonists are often at odds with ...
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... created its own construction of the female artist that has become a meta - narrative that influences the way women writers , such as Louisa May Alcott , are evaluated and discussed . Her chapter examines the image of the artist heroine ...
... created its own construction of the female artist that has become a meta - narrative that influences the way women writers , such as Louisa May Alcott , are evaluated and discussed . Her chapter examines the image of the artist heroine ...
Page xiv
... create a reality with his protagonist's struggle to achieve immortality through the creation of a place of spiritual worship . He concludes that Stransom's altar is to him what writing was to James , a way of finding " consolation " in ...
... create a reality with his protagonist's struggle to achieve immortality through the creation of a place of spiritual worship . He concludes that Stransom's altar is to him what writing was to James , a way of finding " consolation " in ...
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... creating a work of art is , in a sense , a novel in which the author is a character . The essays in this col ... creates and sells works of art but compulsively needs to reacquire them . 2. And , of course , nonfictional theoretical ...
... creating a work of art is , in a sense , a novel in which the author is a character . The essays in this col ... creates and sells works of art but compulsively needs to reacquire them . 2. And , of course , nonfictional theoretical ...
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... create a better world in which high culture — and the beauty , freedom , love and sense of human kinship it produces becomes an essential part of everyday life . Yet Der deutsche Kun- stlerroman is currently available only in German ...
... create a better world in which high culture — and the beauty , freedom , love and sense of human kinship it produces becomes an essential part of everyday life . Yet Der deutsche Kun- stlerroman is currently available only in German ...
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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