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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... Sophia Western . In the name of " Sophia , " Fielding creates a cubist construction , a " Picasso " of his Platonic ideal : first , the absolute truth / beauty that only goodness may behold ; second , philosophy itself ; and third , the ...
... Sophia Western . In the name of " Sophia , " Fielding creates a cubist construction , a " Picasso " of his Platonic ideal : first , the absolute truth / beauty that only goodness may behold ; second , philosophy itself ; and third , the ...
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... Sophia is the attainment of absolute beauty . Sophia is not the kind of embodiment of middle - class virtue as Richardson's readers may expect ( rather , her behavior might impose a question mark upon the " sainthood " of Clarissa ) ...
... Sophia is the attainment of absolute beauty . Sophia is not the kind of embodiment of middle - class virtue as Richardson's readers may expect ( rather , her behavior might impose a question mark upon the " sainthood " of Clarissa ) ...
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... Sophia's guide is a dramatic presentation of such a problem , which I will discuss shortly . When ethical codes in ... Sophia as " the emblematic redaction of the Platonic metaphor , " Fielding blends in also the metaphor of England's ...
... Sophia's guide is a dramatic presentation of such a problem , which I will discuss shortly . When ethical codes in ... Sophia as " the emblematic redaction of the Platonic metaphor , " Fielding blends in also the metaphor of England's ...
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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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