Fact, Fiction, and Form : Selected Essays / / Ralph W. Rader ; edited by James Phelan and David H. Richter

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910552772903321
• Autore: Rader Ralph Wilson <1930-2007.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2011; ©2011
• ISBN: 0-8142-7066-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 369 p. :) : ill.
• Collana: Theory and interpretation of narrative
• Altri autori (Persone): RichterDavid H. <1945->; PhelanJames <1951->
• Disciplina: 820.9
• Soggetti: Literature, Modern - History and criticism; Criticism - 20th century; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Fact, theory, and literary explanation -- The concept of genre in eighteenth-century studies -- Literary permanence and critical change -- Literary constructs : experience and explanation -- Literary form in factual narrative : the example of Boswell's Johnson -- The dramatic monologue and related lyric forms -- Notes on some structural varieties and variations in dramatic "I" poems and their theoretical implications -- Defoe, Richardson, Joyce and the concept of form in the novel -- The emergence of the novel in England : genre in history vs. history of genre -- From Richardson to Austen : "Johnson's rule" and the eighteenth-century novel of moral action -- Tom Jones : the form in history -- "Big with jest" : the bastardy of Tristram Shandy -- The comparative anatomy of three "baggy monsters" : Bleak house, Vanity fair, Middlemarch -- Barchester towers : a fourth baggy monster -- Lord Jim and the formal development of the English novel -- Exodus and return : Joyce's Ulysses and the fiction of the actual -- The logic of Ulysses, or why Molly had to live in Gibraltar.