Novelistic Love in the Platonic Tradition: Fielding, Faulkner, and the PostmodernistsRowman & Littlefield, 1997 - 215 páginas 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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... fiction - History and criticism . 2. Love stories - History and criticism . 3. Platonic love in literature . 4. American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism . 5. Postmodernism ( Literature ) 6. Fielding , Henry , 1707-1754 ...
... fiction - History and criticism . 2. Love stories - History and criticism . 3. Platonic love in literature . 4. American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism . 5. Postmodernism ( Literature ) 6. Fielding , Henry , 1707-1754 ...
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... future as well as from the past . Thus , love of a country Begins as attachment to our own field of action . -T . S. Eliot , " Little Gidding " Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Contents The Lover's Discourse in Postmodern Fiction II.
... future as well as from the past . Thus , love of a country Begins as attachment to our own field of action . -T . S. Eliot , " Little Gidding " Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Contents The Lover's Discourse in Postmodern Fiction II.
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... Fiction : From Finnegans Wake to Smiles on Washington Square xi XV 1 2 The Invention of " Greek " Love Stories : Plato's Symposium 3 Epic Love and the English Novel 200 29 67 4 The Legitimate Lover of " Sophia " and the Rightful Ruler ...
... Fiction : From Finnegans Wake to Smiles on Washington Square xi XV 1 2 The Invention of " Greek " Love Stories : Plato's Symposium 3 Epic Love and the English Novel 200 29 67 4 The Legitimate Lover of " Sophia " and the Rightful Ruler ...
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... fiction from a fictionist's perspective . The original idea of my thesis came into being when I was translating his award - winning novel Smiles on Washington Square : A Love Story of Sorts ( 1986 ) . This translation project was ...
... fiction from a fictionist's perspective . The original idea of my thesis came into being when I was translating his award - winning novel Smiles on Washington Square : A Love Story of Sorts ( 1986 ) . This translation project was ...
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... Fiction 34 ( 1992 ) : 63-79 under the title of " To Wielderfight His Penisolate War : ' The Lover's Discourse ' in Postmodern Fiction . " Another section from the Faulkner chapter was first presented at " Voice of Diversity : The Third ...
... Fiction 34 ( 1992 ) : 63-79 under the title of " To Wielderfight His Penisolate War : ' The Lover's Discourse ' in Postmodern Fiction . " Another section from the Faulkner chapter was first presented at " Voice of Diversity : The Third ...
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