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Fact, Fiction, and Form Selected Essays

Title
Fact, Fiction, and Form [electronic resource] : Selected Essays / Ralph W. Rader ; edited by James Phelan and David H. Richter.
Author
Rader, Ralph Wilson, 1930-2007.
Publication
Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2011.

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Additional Authors
  • Richter, David H., 1945-
  • Phelan, James, 1951-
  • Project Muse.
Description
1 online resource (xii, 369 p. :) : ill.
Series Statement
Theory and interpretation of narrative
Uniform Title
  • Fact, Fiction, and Form (Online)
  • Book collections on Project MUSE.
Alternative Title
Fact, Fiction, and Form (Online)
Subject
  • Literature, Modern > History and criticism
  • Criticism > 20th century
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Source of Description (note)
  • Description based on print version record.
Contents
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.
OCLC
ssj0001339466
Author
Rader, Ralph Wilson, 1930-2007.
Title
Fact, Fiction, and Form [electronic resource] : Selected Essays / Ralph W. Rader ; edited by James Phelan and David H. Richter.
Imprint
Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2011. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Series
Theory and interpretation of narrative
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
Note
Description based on print version record.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Richter, David H., 1945-
Phelan, James, 1951-
Project Muse.
LCCN
2011011036
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