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Realism and Space in the Novel, 1795-1869 - Imagined Geographies (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Realism and Space in the Novel, 1795-1869 - Imagined Geographies (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Posing new questions about realism and the creative power of
narratives, Rosa Mucignat takes a fresh look at the relationship
between representation and reality. As Mucignat points out, worlds
evoked in fiction all depend to a greater or lesser extent on the
world we know from experience, but they are neither parasites on
nor copies of those realms. Never fully aligned with the real
world, stories grow out of the mismatch between reality and
representation-those areas of the fictional space that are not
located on actual maps, but still form a fully structured imagined
geography. Mucignat offers new readings of six foundational texts
of modern Western culture: Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's
Apprenticeship, Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, Alessandro Manzoni's
The Betrothed, Stendahl'ss The Red and the Black, Charles Dickens's
Great Expectations, and Gustave Flaubert's Sentimental Education.
Using these texts as source material and supporting evidence for a
new and comprehensive theory of space in fiction, she examines the
links between the nineteenth-century novel's interest in creating
substantial, life-like worlds and contemporary developments in
science, art, and society. Mucignat's book is an evocative analysis
of the way novels marshal their technical and stylistic resources
to produce imagined geographies so complex and engrossing that they
intensify and even transform the reader's experience of real-life
places.
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