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UNINA9910465856903321 |
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Merrett Robert James |
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Daniel Defoe : contrarian / / Robert James Merrett |
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Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2013 |
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©2013 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (430 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Chapter One. Contraries: Linguistic, Narrative, and Theological -- Chapter Two. Just Reflections -- Chapter Three. Serious Reflections: An Apology for Faith and Fiction -- Chapter Four. Biblical Allusions as Narrative Resources -- Chapter Five. Political Impersonations and Cultural Implications -- Chapter Six. Political Imaginings: Sacred and Profane -- Chapter Seven. Marriage and Matrimony: The Dialectic of Sex and Love -- Chapter Eight. Defoe's Imaginary: Narrative Inference, Figurative Expression, and Spiritual Cognition -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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A highly conscious wordsmith, Daniel Defoe used expository styles in his fiction and non-fiction that reflected his ability to perceive material and intellectual phenomena from opposing, but not contradictory perspectives. Moreover, the boundaries of genre within his wide-ranging oeuvre can prove highly fluid. In this study, Robert James Merrett approaches Defoe's body of work using interdisciplinary methods that recognize dialectic in his verbal creativity and cognitive awareness.Examining more than ninety of Defoe's works, Merrett contends that this author's literariness exploits a conscious dialogue that fosters the reciprocity of traditional and progressive authorial procedures. Along the way, he discusses Defoe's lexical and semantic sensibility, his rhetorical and aesthetic theories, his contrarian |
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theology, and more. Merrett proposes that Defoe's contrarian outlook celebrates a view of consciousness that acknowledges the brain's bipartite structure, and in so doing illustrates how cognitive science may be applied to further explorations of narrative art. |
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