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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... Truth , especially literary truth , does not necessarily partake of reality . Sterne warns us in the chapter " Sleep " in Tristram Shandy : " But remember , ' La Vraisemblance . . . n'est pas toujours du Cote de la Verite . ' And so ...
... Truth , especially literary truth , does not necessarily partake of reality . Sterne warns us in the chapter " Sleep " in Tristram Shandy : " But remember , ' La Vraisemblance . . . n'est pas toujours du Cote de la Verite . ' And so ...
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... truth ( with the exception of Alcibiades , whose name is already ruined ) . Without " being able to give reasons for them , " the masculine mind will not accept irrational convictions , even those " which hit upon the truth . " As ...
... truth ( with the exception of Alcibiades , whose name is already ruined ) . Without " being able to give reasons for them , " the masculine mind will not accept irrational convictions , even those " which hit upon the truth . " As ...
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... truth , the tragic truth that he had to kill the man whom he loved most ? He cannot . He said no , but we know that it cannot possibly be true , because McCaslin forces him again to speak the truth when Ike comes between them to protect ...
... truth , the tragic truth that he had to kill the man whom he loved most ? He cannot . He said no , but we know that it cannot possibly be true , because McCaslin forces him again to speak the truth when Ike comes between them to protect ...
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The Invention of Greek Love | 29 |
Epic Love and the English Novel | 67 |
The Legitimate Lover of Sophia | 89 |
Urheberrecht | |
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