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Experience in the Novel

Roy Harvey Pearce

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From the Introduction: "Modern criticism has been notoriously uneasy with the novel. Indeed out of this freely admitted sense of uneasiness there have come many of the successes of our novelistic criticism: pieces in which the critic is able to ascertain and define those qualities, particularly in the modern novel, which often seem to be a sign of its having been transformed into something crucially different from what it was in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries....Essentially, as a good deal of recent exacting historical criticism has shown, it is a matter of the novel's being tied to the detailed, wholly absorbing sense of being in history, in society, in culture - and of being able to get out only temporarily and, as it usually develops, at one's peril." The book compiles 6 essays on the novel. Written at a certain moment which makes them rather interesting, the essays discuss Dickens , Dickens and Twain , Goethe , Fitzgerald and "The Person of the Maker" . Interesting to read when wondering what criticism is and how it has been and continues to be thought out and written. The introduction argues that novels occur within history - this collection does too.

Format: Hardcover

ISBN: 0231031858

ISBN 13: 9780231031851

Experience in the Novel

Roy Harvey Pearce

0/5 ( ratings)

From the Introduction: "Modern criticism has been notoriously uneasy with the novel. Indeed out of this freely admitted sense of uneasiness there have come many of the successes of our novelistic criticism: pieces in which the critic is able to ascertain and define those qualities, particularly in the modern novel, which often seem to be a sign of its having been transformed into something crucially different from what it was in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries....Essentially, as a good deal of recent exacting historical criticism has shown, it is a matter of the novel's being tied to the detailed, wholly absorbing sense of being in history, in society, in culture - and of being able to get out only temporarily and, as it usually develops, at one's peril." The book compiles 6 essays on the novel. Written at a certain moment which makes them rather interesting, the essays discuss Dickens , Dickens and Twain , Goethe , Fitzgerald and "The Person of the Maker" . Interesting to read when wondering what criticism is and how it has been and continues to be thought out and written. The introduction argues that novels occur within history - this collection does too.

Format: Hardcover

ISBN: 0231031858

ISBN 13: 9780231031851

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