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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... Muse : Charlotte Smith's Interior Other Laura Alexander 75 75 93 8 Creativity and Social Power in Jane Austen's Emma Michelle Ruggaber Dougherty 101 9 " In Abhorring Mediocrity , Admiring " Middlingness " : George Eliot and Amateurism ...
... Muse : Charlotte Smith's Interior Other Laura Alexander 75 75 93 8 Creativity and Social Power in Jane Austen's Emma Michelle Ruggaber Dougherty 101 9 " In Abhorring Mediocrity , Admiring " Middlingness " : George Eliot and Amateurism ...
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... Muse ( as do later epics by Dante and Milton ) , certainly an indication of a belief that poets and poetic composition are driven by some supernatural force . Human memory and divine inspiration were the stuff of art , and since the ...
... Muse ( as do later epics by Dante and Milton ) , certainly an indication of a belief that poets and poetic composition are driven by some supernatural force . Human memory and divine inspiration were the stuff of art , and since the ...
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... Muse : Charlotte Smith's Interior Other " examines the poet / muse relationship in Smith's Elegiac Sonnets . She challenges traditional critical notions that Smith's project is pri- marily an attempt to establish poetic authority ...
... Muse : Charlotte Smith's Interior Other " examines the poet / muse relationship in Smith's Elegiac Sonnets . She challenges traditional critical notions that Smith's project is pri- marily an attempt to establish poetic authority ...
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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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