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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Representations of the Creative Process in Nineteenth-century British and American Fiction Darby Lewes. Contents Acknowledgements Introduction : A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Protagonist : The Nineteenth - century Künstlerroman in ...
Representations of the Creative Process in Nineteenth-century British and American Fiction Darby Lewes. Contents Acknowledgements Introduction : A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Protagonist : The Nineteenth - century Künstlerroman in ...
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... Creativity and the Saga of Charlotte Brontë Diane Long Hoeveler 187 16 A Picture's Worth a Thousand Lies : Portraits in Victorian Literature Nanette Thrush 195 17 Interior Designs : Representations of the Creative Process in American ...
... Creativity and the Saga of Charlotte Brontë Diane Long Hoeveler 187 16 A Picture's Worth a Thousand Lies : Portraits in Victorian Literature Nanette Thrush 195 17 Interior Designs : Representations of the Creative Process in American ...
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... creative process and the nature of art , the agony of writer's block and the ecstasy of flow , the difficulty of ... creativity is as old as literature itself : Homer's Iliad opens with an invocation to the Muse ( as do later epics by ...
... creative process and the nature of art , the agony of writer's block and the ecstasy of flow , the difficulty of ... creativity is as old as literature itself : Homer's Iliad opens with an invocation to the Muse ( as do later epics by ...
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... creative process in the light of Enlightenment thought : rational , observational and exterior ; a process of observing the unruly world around one and methodizing it into an aesthetically pleasing representation of life . Clarity ...
... creative process in the light of Enlightenment thought : rational , observational and exterior ; a process of observing the unruly world around one and methodizing it into an aesthetically pleasing representation of life . Clarity ...
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Representations of the Creative Process in Nineteenth-century British and American Fiction Darby Lewes. the desire to isolate himself from humanity and the need for social roots " ( 22 ) . The artist could establish such roots by ...
Representations of the Creative Process in Nineteenth-century British and American Fiction Darby Lewes. the desire to isolate himself from humanity and the need for social roots " ( 22 ) . The artist could establish such roots by ...
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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