مفاهیم روایی در مطالعه ادبیات قرن هجدهم (عبور از مرزها: مطالعات قرون وسطی و اوایل مدرن تورکو)

This collection of essays studies the encounter between allegedly ahistorical concepts of narrative and eighteenth-century literature from across Europe. At issue is the question of whether the theoretical concepts underpinning narratology are, despite their appearance of ahistorical generality, actually derived from the historical study of a particular period and type of literature. The essays take on aspects of eighteenth-century texts such as plot, genre, character, perspective, temporality, and more, coming at them from both a narratological and a historical perspective. This collection of essays studies the encounter between allegedly ahistorical concepts of narratology and eighteenth-century literature. It questions whether the general concepts of narratology are as such applicable to historically specific fields, or whether they need further specification. Furthermore, at issue is the question whether the theoretical concepts actually are, despite their appearance of ahistorical generality, derived from the historical study of a particular period and type of literature. In the essays such concepts as genre, plot, character, event, tellability, perspective, temporality, description, reading, metadiegetic narration, and paratext are scrutinized in the context of eighteenth-century texts. The writers include some of the leading theorists of both narratology and eighteenth-century literature. Table of Contents 5 Introduction 7 The Eighteenth-Century Challenge to Narrative Theory 39 Formalism and Historicity Reconciled in Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones 79 Perspective and Focalization in Eighteenth-Century Descriptions 99 Temporality in Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko and Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe 121 Temporality, Subjectivity and the Representation of Characters in the Eighteenth-Century Novel 135 Authorial Narration Reconsidered 161 Problems of Tellability in German Eighteenth-Century Criticism and Novel-Writing 177 Immediacy 199 The Tension between Idea and Narrative Form 225 ‘Speaking Well of the Dead’ 249 The Use of Paratext in Popular Eighteenth-Century Biography 269 Peritextual Disposition in French Eighteenth-Century Narratives 289 List of Abbreviations 309 Index 311

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