Towards the ethics of form in fiction
Subtitle: narratives of cultural remission
By: Leona Toker.
Series: Theory and interpretation of narrative; Theory and interpretation of narrative series
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780814211229; 9780814292204
Subjects: Hawthorne, Nathaniel, -- 1804-1864 -- Criticism and interpretation; Fielding, Henry, -- 1707-1754 -- Criticism and interpretation; Sterne, Laurence, -- 1713-1768 -- Criticism and interpretation; Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Criticism and interpretation; Dickens, Charles, -- 1812-1870 -- Criticism and interpretation; Eliot, George, -- 1819-1880 -- Criticism and interpretation; Hardy, Thomas, -- 1840-1928 -- Criticism and interpretation; Conrad, Joseph, -- 1857-1924 -- Criticism and interpretation; Joyce, James, -- 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation; Kafka, Franz, -- 1883-1924 -- Criticism and interpretation; Shalamov, Varlam Tikhonovich -- Criticism and interpretation; Literary form; Literature -- Aesthetics; Ethics in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Carnival and crisis in three stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne; title: Oppositionality in Fielding's Tom Jones; title: Carnival diminished : the secret springs of Tristram Shandy; title: Non-carnivalesque oppositionality : Jane Austen and the golden mean; title: Checks and balances : Charles Dickens's A tale of two cities; title: Across the boundaries of the self : George Eliot's Daniel Deronda; title: Carnival reversals : Thomas Hardy's The mayor of Casterbridge; title: Morphology of crisis : non-contact measurement of self in Conrad's "The secret sharer"; title: Carnivalization : throwaways in Joyce's Ulysses; title: Discourse of Lent : Kafka's "A hunger artist" and Shalamov's "The artist of the spade".