Chain of Things
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... this is a work of engaged and engaging criticism whose dis-disenchanting programme will move its readers to (re)visit not just the two target novels but, in principle, any other work marked 'realist.'
» MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW
In The Chain of Things, Eric Downing shows how the connection between divinatory magic and reading shaped the experience of reading and aesthetics among nineteenth-century realists and modernist thinkers. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- Cornell University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 366
- ISBN
- 9781501715907
- Utgivelsesår
- 2018
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
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«
... this is a work of engaged and engaging criticism whose dis-disenchanting programme will move its readers to (re)visit not just the two target novels but, in principle, any other work marked 'realist.'
» MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW
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By challenging the received historiographical and aesthetic notions that underpin the study of Realism by expanding our understanding of mimesis, rather than jettisoning it, Downing's work potently charges and expands many of the crucial concepts of both the field and its best-known authors. The Chain of Things gives scholars working in the field invaluable tools to approach some of the most difficult and intriguing questions of these difficult and intriguing texts.
» The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory