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The Narratology of Observation
Studies in a Technique of European Literary Realism
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Martin Wagner
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Englisch
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2019
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How does literature evoke reality? This book takes cues from the history of scientific observation to provide a new approach to this longstanding question of literary studies. It reconstructs a narrative technique of ‘literary’ observation in which reality appears by mimicking processes of visual perception, and it traces the functioning of this technique through a wide range of European fiction from the early 18th to the late 19th centuries.
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How can literature show us a world that appears 'real'?
The basic premise of this book is that literature, in order to achieve this goal, has to emulate the way we experience the world visually, bringing curious objects to our attention and showing us how these objects develop over time. In terms of narratology, this means that literature must find ways to combine a vivid description of new images with a narrative in which these images are set in motion. This book thus moves beyond established approaches that associate realism’s visuality with description alone to argue that the imitation of visual perception is the product precisely of the combination of description with narration – a technique introduced here as literary observation. Through readings of European fiction from the early eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, this book explores how this technique is supported – and complicated – by a range of cultural and literary expectations.
Combining recent work in the history of knowledge with traditional questions of literary theory, The Narratology of Observation expands the conceptual vocabulary for analyzing fiction and offers new insights into the study of European realism.
The basic premise of this book is that literature, in order to achieve this goal, has to emulate the way we experience the world visually, bringing curious objects to our attention and showing us how these objects develop over time. In terms of narratology, this means that literature must find ways to combine a vivid description of new images with a narrative in which these images are set in motion. This book thus moves beyond established approaches that associate realism’s visuality with description alone to argue that the imitation of visual perception is the product precisely of the combination of description with narration – a technique introduced here as literary observation. Through readings of European fiction from the early eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, this book explores how this technique is supported – and complicated – by a range of cultural and literary expectations.
Combining recent work in the history of knowledge with traditional questions of literary theory, The Narratology of Observation expands the conceptual vocabulary for analyzing fiction and offers new insights into the study of European realism.
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Acknowledgments
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Contents
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Table of Figures
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Introduction
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Chapter 1: Description and Narration
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Chapter 2: Before Observation (Le Diable boiteux)
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Chapter 3: Observation (Les Nuits de Paris)
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Chapter 4: Failing Observations
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Chapter 5: Another Form of Observation? (Sherlock Holmes)
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Conclusion: Literary Observation after 1900
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Bibliography
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Index
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eBook veröffentlicht am:
5. November 2018
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9783110594348
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Schlagwörter für dieses Buch
Beobachtung; Beschreibung und Narration; Literarischer Realismus; Literatur und Wissen
Zielgruppe(n) für dieses Buch
Scholars of Literary studies, comparative literature, German, French and English studies.
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