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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... Young Man . Susan Gubar , nineteenth - century scholar par excellence , has so far limited her writings on the artist - novel to a 1988 article on the fiction of early twentieth - century author Katherine Mansfield ( " The Birth of the ...
... Young Man . Susan Gubar , nineteenth - century scholar par excellence , has so far limited her writings on the artist - novel to a 1988 article on the fiction of early twentieth - century author Katherine Mansfield ( " The Birth of the ...
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... young dissenting minister whose ambitions centre on the composition of uplifting ( al- though often more startling ) sermons . But as he shuttles between immersing him- self in the art of writing and begrudgingly acknowledging the need ...
... young dissenting minister whose ambitions centre on the composition of uplifting ( al- though often more startling ) sermons . But as he shuttles between immersing him- self in the art of writing and begrudgingly acknowledging the need ...
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... young woman's impor- tance and social standing , if we are to believe the thirdhand anecdote recorded by Cross of ... young woman , she briefly eschewed practicing alto- gether.14 Mary Ann's approach to music as a child and young woman ...
... young woman's impor- tance and social standing , if we are to believe the thirdhand anecdote recorded by Cross of ... young woman , she briefly eschewed practicing alto- gether.14 Mary Ann's approach to music as a child and young woman ...
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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