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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... literary theory and pro- duction , and tended to view the 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 ...
... literary theory and pro- duction , and tended to view the 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 ...
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... literary confessional genre , dreams of chivalric heroism , and memories of his own child- hood influenced the artist to turn to the past " and by focusing his attention on himself , " to create a literary asylum " ( 22 ) . Like Wilhelm ...
... literary confessional genre , dreams of chivalric heroism , and memories of his own child- hood influenced the artist to turn to the past " and by focusing his attention on himself , " to create a literary asylum " ( 22 ) . Like Wilhelm ...
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... literary creation during an era of economic uncertainty in order to demonstrate that the work of the author and the expectation of readers remain enmeshed within the same impulses of credit and expectation that energized ( and often ...
... literary creation during an era of economic uncertainty in order to demonstrate that the work of the author and the expectation of readers remain enmeshed within the same impulses of credit and expectation that energized ( and often ...
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... literary gen- res : a relative latecomer , which has inspired relatively little critical analysis in a co- herent collection.4 The mere notion of considering the genesis of the artist is new to artists themselves , and thus newer still ...
... literary gen- res : a relative latecomer , which has inspired relatively little critical analysis in a co- herent collection.4 The mere notion of considering the genesis of the artist is new to artists themselves , and thus newer still ...
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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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