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Author | : Anne F. Widmayer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781789627107 |
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Ever since Ian Watt's The Rise of the novel(1957), many critics have argued that a constitutive element of the early 'novel' is its embrace of realism. Anne F. Widmayer contends, however, that Restoration and early eighteenth-century prose narratives employ techniques that distance the reading audience from an illusion of reality; irony, hypocrisy, and characters who are knowingly acting for an audience are privileged, highlighting the artificial and false in fictional works.Focusing on the works of four celebrated playwright-novelists, Widmayer explores how the increased interiority of their prose characters is ridiculed by the use of techniques drawn from the theatre to throw into doubt the novel's ability to portray an unmediated 'reality'. Aphra Behn's dramatic techniques question the reliability of female narrators, while Delarivier Manley undermines the impact of women's passionate anger by suggesting the self-consciousness of their performances. In his later drama, William Congreve subverts the character of the apparently objective critic that is recurrent in his prose work, whilst Henry Fielding uses the figure of the satirical writer in his rehearsal plays to mock the novelist's aspiration to control the way a reader reads the text. Through analysing how these writers satirize the reading public's desire for clear distinctions between truth and illusion, Anne F. Widmayer also highlights the equally fluid boundaries between prose fiction and drama. Reviews 'Cet ouvrage s'attache à demontrer que les récits en prose, de la Restauration jusqu'au milieu du XVIIIe siècle, sont influencés en profondeur par des techniques empruntées au théâtre' [...] [Il est] très bien étayé sur des sources primaires et secondaires pertinentes'.RSÉAA XVII-XVIII 'One of the most interesting aspects of Widmayer's study is her focus on the use of stage space by the four authors [Behn, Nanley, Fielding, Congreve] (...) but to different effects.'Papers on Language and Literature
Author | : Anne F. Widmayer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Authors and theater |
ISBN | : 9780729411653 |
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Ever since Ian Watt's The Rise of the novel (1957), many critics have argued that a constitutive element of the early 'novel' is its embrace of realism. Anne F. Widmayer contends, however, that Restoration and early eighteenth-century prose narratives employ techniques that distance the reading audience from an illusion of reality; irony, hypocrisy, and characters who are knowingly acting for an audience are privileged, highlighting the artificial and false in fictional works. Focusing on the works of four celebrated playwright-novelists, Widmayer explores how the increased interiority of their prose characters is ridiculed by the use of techniques drawn from the theatre to throw into doubt the novel's ability to portray an unmediated 'reality'. Aphra Behn's dramatic techniques question the reliability of female narrators, while Delarivier Manley undermines the impact of women's passionate anger by suggesting the self-consciousness of their performances. In his later drama, William Congreve subverts the character of the apparently objective critic that is recurrent in his prose work, whilst Henry Fielding uses the figure of the satirical writer in his rehearsal plays to mock the novelist's aspiration to control the way a reader reads the text. Through analysing how these writers satirize the reading public's desire for clear distinctions between truth and illusion, Anne F. Widmayer also highlights the equally fluid boundaries between prose fiction and drama.
Author | : Graham Wolfe |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2019-06-10 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1000124363 |
Download Theatre-Fiction in Britain from Henry James to Doris Lessing Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume posits and explores an intermedial genre called theatre-fiction, understood in its broadest sense as referring to novels and stories that engage in concrete and sustained ways with theatre. Though theatre has made star appearances in dozens of literary fictions, including many by modern history’s most influential authors, no full-length study has dedicated itself specifically to theatre-fiction—in fact there has not even been a recognized name for the phenomenon. Focusing on Britain, where most of the world’s theatre-novels have been produced, and commencing in the late-nineteenth century, when theatre increasingly took on major roles in novels, Theatre-Fiction in Britain argues for the benefits of considering these works in relation to each other, to a history of development, and to the theatre of their time. New modes of intermedial analysis are modelled through close studies of Henry James, Somerset Maugham, Virginia Woolf, J. B. Priestley, Ngaio Marsh, Angela Carter, and Doris Lessing, all of whom were deeply involved in the theatre-world as playwrights, directors, reviewers, and theorists. Drawing as much on theatre scholarship as on literary theory, Theatre-Fiction in Britain presents theatre-fiction as one of the past century’s most vital means of exploring, reconsidering, and bringing forth theatre’s potentials.
Author | : Marcie Frank |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2020-02-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1684481694 |
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2020 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Marcie Frank’s study traces the migration of tragicomedy, the comedy of manners, and melodrama from the stage to the novel, offering a dramatic new approach to the history of the English novel that examines how the collaboration of genres contributed to the novel’s narrative form and to the modern organization of literature. Drawing on media theory and focusing on the less-examined narrative contributions of such authors as Aphra Behn, Frances Burney, and Elizabeth Inchbald, alongside those of Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, and Jane Austen, The Novel Stage tells the story of the novel as it was shaped by the stage. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Author | : Katrin Berndt |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 606 |
Release | : 2022-07-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3110650444 |
Download Handbook of the British Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The handbook offers a comprehensive introduction to the British novel in the long eighteenth century, when this genre emerged to develop into the period’s most versatile and popular literary form. Part I features six systematic chapters that discuss literary, intellectual, socio-economic, and political contexts, providing innovative approaches to issues such as sense and sentiment, gender considerations, formal characteristics, economic history, enlightened and radical concepts of citizenship and human rights, ecological ramifications, and Britain’s growing global involvement. Part II presents twenty-five analytical chapters that attend to individual novels, some canonical and others recently recovered. These analyses engage the debates outlined in the systematic chapters, undertaking in-depth readings that both contextualize the works and draw on relevant criticism, literary theory, and cultural perspectives. The handbook’s breadth and depth, clear presentation, and lucid language make it attractive and accessible to scholar and student alike.
Author | : Rosalind Ballaster |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1783275588 |
Download Fictions of Presence Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An absorbing study of the contested embodiment of the idea of presence in the plays and novels of the eighteenth century.
Author | : Albert J. Rivero |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780813912288 |
Download The Plays of Henry Fielding Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Henry Fielding was one of the most interesting playwrights of his time because of his historical position, similar to that of George Bernard Shaw, and his awareness of what it meant to be a playwright at a time when the native dramatic tradition appeared to have settled down for a long sleep and when the only hope for an awakening lay in such low crowd-pleasers as farces, puppet shows, "laughing" tragedies, and ballad operas. By focusing on the plays themselves, Rivero tells the story of Fielding's dramatic career without burdening the reader with an exhaustive history of contemporary plays and playwrights. He provides us with a clear, critical account of Fielding's dramatic career in terms of trends in contemporary dramatic affairs that help to account for his artistic choices in individual plays.
Author | : Bridget Orr |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2020-01-02 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1108499716 |
Download British Enlightenment Theatre Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Reveals how England's eighteenth-century theatre dramatized anti-imperial protest, and gave voice to oppressed groups.
Author | : Marcie Frank |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2020-02-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1684481678 |
Download The Novel Stage Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"The Novel Stage: Narrative Form from the Restoration to Jane Austen traces the novel's relation to the theater over the course of the long eighteenth century, arguing that the familiar account of the novel as 'new' and distinct from other literary genres risks distorting a true reckoning of the form by failing to engage with the borrowings and departures from other more familiar genres, particularly drama. The Novel Stage traces the migration of tragicomedy, the comedy of manners, and melodrama from the stage to the novel. These genres were shared across print and performance, media that were not construed as opposites in a world in which individual silent reading took place beside playgoing, play-reading, amateur theatricals, and sociable reading aloud. The book thus expands an overly narrow conception of the novel as the genre of realism or domesticity whose highest achievement is its representation of characters' mental lives by describing the influence of the stage and its genres. Beginning in the later 1600s with Aphra Behn, The Novel Stage concludes with a chapter on some novelists of the Romantic period and a coda about Victorian novels. The Novel Stage's account of the novel provides an enriched, because more specific, sense of its formal accomplishments that drew on this ensemble of cultural forms and turns that lens back onto drama"--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Karin Kukkonen |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0190634766 |
Download A Prehistory of Cognitive Poetics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Carrying neoclassicism back into today's critical debates, this study considers the cognitive underpinnings of the rules of poetic justice, the unities and decorum, underlines their relevance for today's cognitive poetics and traces their influence in the emerging narrative form of the eighteenth-century novel.