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Oxford University Press USA - OSO, Oxford
This study traces transformations in the pacing of prose fiction from the rise of the novel through realism and modernism--from Fielding, Goethe, and Austen to Flaubert, Henry James, and Joyce. Intro -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page...
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This study traces transformations in the pacing of prose fiction from the rise of the novel through realism and modernism--from Fielding, Goethe, and Austen to Flaubert, Henry James, and Joyce. Intro -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1. Narrative Discourse, Literary History -- Scene and Summary Resurrected -- Traditions Classical and Modern -- Lens, Loci, Foci, Ellipse -- Narrative Movement and Modernity -- 2. Rise of the Scene-and-Summary Novel -- Fielding and the Prosai-Comi-Epic -- Goethe on Epic and Drama -- The Novel Intersected -- One Day, the West, and the World -- 3. Realist Pace -- Reality Principle, Reality Effect -- Senses of Scene -- Middlemarch -- In Which the Story Pauses a Little, and Looks Forward -- 4. Collapse of the Scenic Method -- And When I Draw Up the Curtain This Time, Reader -- Kindly Time -- The Scenic Method -- Wandering Steps and Slow -- 5. Epiphanic and Everyday Modernisms -- Interepisodic -- Epiphany -- Everyday -- By the Ocean of Time -- Bibliography -- Index.
