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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... Legends . " Fiction gives Haw- thorne the flexibility both to draw upon a social impulse of expectation in formu- lating his tales and to unmask the broader social effects of such expectation . Through these tales and the narrative ...
... Legends . " Fiction gives Haw- thorne the flexibility both to draw upon a social impulse of expectation in formu- lating his tales and to unmask the broader social effects of such expectation . Through these tales and the narrative ...
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... Legends " as his- tory with the " Legends " as commodity . Yet , while Hawthorne's readers witnessed the conflated importance of political history and Waite's business , the writer only gradually reveals this explicit connec- tion . The ...
... Legends " as his- tory with the " Legends " as commodity . Yet , while Hawthorne's readers witnessed the conflated importance of political history and Waite's business , the writer only gradually reveals this explicit connec- tion . The ...
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... legends , and if passion and the imagina- tion - Hawthorne might say fancy - at times work against rather than with the execution of the tales , then we can begin to see that the revolutionary history in the " Legends " may not simply ...
... legends , and if passion and the imagina- tion - Hawthorne might say fancy - at times work against rather than with the execution of the tales , then we can begin to see that the revolutionary history in the " Legends " may not simply ...
Contents
Herman Melville and the Crafting of Pierre | 3 |
Making Selling and Living the Fictitious | 15 |
The Business of Storytelling in Nathaniel | 39 |
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