Author: Cathy Cash SpellmanPublisher:
ISBN: 9781850572886
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
So Many Partings
Author: Cathy Cash SpellmanPublisher:
ISBN: 9781850572886
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
The One Vs. the Many
Author: Alex WolochPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691113135
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Does a novel focus on one life or many? Alex Woloch uses this simple question to develop a powerful new theory of the realist novel, based on how narratives distribute limited attention among a crowded field of characters. His argument has important implications for both literary studies and narrative theory. Characterization has long been a troubled and neglected problem within literary theory. Through close readings of such novels as Pride and Prejudice, Great Expectations, and Le Père Goriot, Woloch demonstrates that the representation of any character takes place within a shifting field of narrative attention and obscurity. Each individual--whether the central figure or a radically subordinated one--emerges as a character only through his or her distinct and contingent space within the narrative as a whole. The "character-space," as Woloch defines it, marks the dramatic interaction between an implied person and his or her delimited position within a narrative structure. The organization of, and clashes between, many character-spaces within a single narrative totality is essential to the novel's very achievement and concerns, striking at issues central to narrative poetics, the aesthetics of realism, and the dynamics of literary representation. Woloch's discussion of character-space allows for a different history of the novel and a new definition of characterization itself. By making the implied person indispensable to our understanding of literary form, this book offers a forward-looking avenue for contemporary narrative theory.
Parting Words
Author: Justin A. SiderPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813941830
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Valedictory addresses offer a way to conceptualize the relation of self to others, private to public, ephemeral to eternal. Whether deathbed pronouncements, political capitulations, or seafaring farewells, "parting words" played a crucial role in the social imagination of Victorian writing. In this compelling new book, Justin Sider traces these public addresses across a wide range of works, from poems by Byron, Tennyson, and Browning, to essays by Twain and Wilde, to novels by Dickens and Eliot. Ironically, while the Victorian era saw the loss of faith in a unitary national public, it asked poetry to address just such a public. Attending to the form, rather than the discursive content, of poets' engagement with public culture, Parting Words explains how the valedictory allowed Victorian poets to explore the ways their poems might be received by distant and anonymous readers in an emergent mass culture. Using a wide array of materials such as letters and reviews to describe the rapidly changing print culture in which poets were intervening, Sider shows how the growing diversification and destabilization of the Victorian reading public was countered by the demand for a public poetry. Characteristically, the speakers of Tennyson's "Ulysses" and Matthew Arnold's "Empedocles on Etna" imagine their farewells as simultaneous entrances into a public space where they and their readers, however distant, might yet meet. This new consciousness anticipated modernist poetry, which in turn used the valedictory to underscore the futility and alienation of such hopes.
So Many Partings
Author: All the Year Round
Author: Marjorie
Author: Justin Huntly McCarthyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Bituminous Coal Fields of Pennsylvania ...
Author: Geological Survey of PennsylvaniaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1242
Book Description
Bituminous Coal Fields of Pennsylvania
Author: All the Year Round
Author: Charles DickensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Bituminous Coal Fields of Pennsylvania ...: pt.1. General information on coal, by G. H. Ashley. 1928. pt.2. Detailed description of coal fields, by J. D. Sisler. 2d ed. 1932. pt.3. Coal resources, by J. F. Reese and J. D. Sisler. 1928. pt.4. Coal analyses, prepared by U.S. Bureau of mines. 1925
Author: Pennsylvania. Bureau of Topographic and Geologic SurveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bituminous coal
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description