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Kipling's Art of Fiction 1884-1901 (Hardcover)
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Kipling's Art of Fiction 1884-1901 (Hardcover)
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Kipling's Art of Fiction 1884-1901 re-establishes its subject as a
major artist. Through extended close readings of individual works,
and unprecedentedly detailed attention to changes in location and
readership, it distinguishes between two kinds of Kipling fiction.
The first is coercive and concerned with the authoritarian control
of meaning; the second relates less directly to its immediate
historical surroundings and is more aesthetically complex.
Misunderstandings have often resulted from confusing the two kinds
of work. Distinguishing between them allows for a newly coherent
account of Kipling's career, both explaining his artistic
achievement and making clearer his identity as a political writer.
Changes in Kipling's narrative practice are tracked as he moves
from India to Britain and the US, and engages with a succession of
new audiences and political contexts; detailed readings are
provided of such key texts as Plain Tales from the Hills, The
Jungle Books and Kim. As well as revealing the precise nature of
Kipling's artistry, this book shows how properties of narrative
which have been generally underrated - such as embodiment and
externality - can be used to make sophisticated fictions, and by
linking these to Robert Louis Stevenson's discussion of the
romance, suggests new ways in which such work might be approached.
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