Fact, fiction, and form
Subtitle: selected essays
By: Ralph W. Rader ; edited by James Phelan and David H. Richter
Contributors: Phelan, James, 1951-; Richter, David H., 1945-
Series: Theory and interpretation of narrative
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 369
ISBN-13: 9780814251805; 9780814211687; 9780814292679
Subjects: Criticism; History and criticism; Modern Literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Fact, theory, and literary explanation; title: The concept of genre in eighteenth-century studies; title: Literary permanence and critical change; title: Literary constructs : experience and explanation; title: Literary form in factual narrative : the example of Boswell's Johnson; title: The dramatic monologue and related lyric forms; title: Notes on some structural varieties and variations in dramatic "I" poems and their theoretical implications; title: Defoe, Richardson, Joyce and the concept of form in the novel; title: The emergence of the novel in England : genre in history vs. history of genre; title: From Richardson to Austen : "Johnson's rule" and the eighteenth-century novel of moral action; title: Tom Jones : the form in history; title: "Big with jest" : the bastardy of Tristram Shandy; title: The comparative anatomy of three "baggy monsters" : Bleak house, Vanity fair, Middlemarch; title: Barchester towers : a fourth baggy monster; title: Lord Jim and the formal development of the English novel; title: Exodus and return : Joyce's Ulysses and the fiction of the actual; title: The logic of Ulysses, or why Molly had to live in Gibraltar.