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 143
... Stransom's private religion . In the first paragraph , James nods to his protagonist's spiritual hunger , as we are told that Stransom dislikes " lean anni- versaries " and that , when his fiancée Mary Antrim had died many years before ...
... Stransom's private religion . In the first paragraph , James nods to his protagonist's spiritual hunger , as we are told that Stransom dislikes " lean anni- versaries " and that , when his fiancée Mary Antrim had died many years before ...
Page 145
... Stransom's drive to produce an utterly original religion that would save his dead through an act of aes- thetic memorialization . He believes his altar is " no dim theological rescue , no boon of a contingent world ; they were saved ...
... Stransom's drive to produce an utterly original religion that would save his dead through an act of aes- thetic memorialization . He believes his altar is " no dim theological rescue , no boon of a contingent world ; they were saved ...
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... Stransom hopes that so long as his altar lives , so long will it give life to him , and he repeatedly suggests to the woman that the last candle on his altar will be the one lit by her after his death ( 269-70 ) . Then , he will be able ...
... Stransom hopes that so long as his altar lives , so long will it give life to him , and he repeatedly suggests to the woman that the last candle on his altar will be the one lit by her after his death ( 269-70 ) . Then , he will be able ...
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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