Novelistic Love in the Platonic Tradition: Fielding, Faulkner, and the PostmodernistsRowman & Littlefield, 1997 - 215 Seiten The love story is an integral part of many novels. What is its narrative status? How does it function, and why? In this original study of Socratic 'love stories, ' from Plato through Fielding and Faulkner to the Postmodernists, Jennie Wang proposes a new narrative theory in the study of the novel, which deconstructs the mimesis of 'love stories' and reconstructs their historicity. Wang claims that in the Platonic tradition, the construction of 'love stories' is often a dramatization of the author's historical vision, philosophical speculations, cultural criticism, or political ideology. Novelistic love functions as a literary medium, a power of free speech, that enables the novelist to speak unspeakable truths and include excluded subjects. Wang's work will be of interest to both philosophers and scholars of American literature and postmodernism. |
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... Fielding's design , which contains his own political agenda , remains a critical ambiguity . To understand Fielding's argument over legitimacy , Tom's true parentage , his title to Allworthy's estate , and even his allegorical identity ...
... Fielding's design , which contains his own political agenda , remains a critical ambiguity . To understand Fielding's argument over legitimacy , Tom's true parentage , his title to Allworthy's estate , and even his allegorical identity ...
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... Fielding's novel , his " New Province of Writing . " Fielding's argument over the issue of legitimacy is probably too serious and profound for Richardson to comprehend . As William Empson suggests , " what nobody will recognize , I feel ...
... Fielding's novel , his " New Province of Writing . " Fielding's argument over the issue of legitimacy is probably too serious and profound for Richardson to comprehend . As William Empson suggests , " what nobody will recognize , I feel ...
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... Fielding's fictions were conduct books for rulers . His characterology is less concerned with the ethical behavior of Everyman than that of a future ruler . Tom Jones , dedicated to George Lyttleton , whom some critics have identified ...
... Fielding's fictions were conduct books for rulers . His characterology is less concerned with the ethical behavior of Everyman than that of a future ruler . Tom Jones , dedicated to George Lyttleton , whom some critics have identified ...
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The Invention of Greek Love | 29 |
Epic Love and the English Novel | 67 |
The Legitimate Lover of Sophia | 89 |
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