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Transformations, Ideology, and the Real in Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Other Narratives - Finding The Thing Itself (Hardcover)
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Transformations, Ideology, and the Real in Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Other Narratives - Finding The Thing Itself (Hardcover)
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This book explores significant problems in the fiction of Daniel
Defoe. Maximillian E. Novak investigates a number of elements in
Defoe's work by probing his interest in rendering of reality (what
Defoe called "the Thing itself"). Novak examines Defoe's interest
in the relationship between prose fiction and painting, as well as
the various ways in which Defoe's woks were read by contemporaries
and by those novelists who attempted to imitate and comment upon
his Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
decades after its publication. In this book, Novak attempts to
consider the uniqueness and imaginativeness of various aspects of
Defoe's writings including his way of evoking the seeming inability
of language to describe a vivid scene or moments of overwhelming
emotion, his attraction to the fiction of islands and utopias, his
gradual development of the concepts surrounding Crusoe's cave, his
fascination with the horrors of cannibalism, and some of the ways
he attempted to defend his work and serious fiction in general.
Most of all, Transformations, Ideology, and the Real in Defoe's
Robinson Crusoe and Other Narratives establishes the complexity and
originality of Defoe as a writer of fiction.
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