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Examining nineteenth-century novels and philosophical essays on the conception of fictional form, Felicia Bonaparte sees the novel in this period not as the continuation of eighteenth-century “realism” but as a genre unto itself. Determined to address the crises that had shattered the age, and drawing on the thought of the early German Romantics, these novelists created a form that would remake the world. They spoke of this process as poesis, with the purpose of embodying “the idealistic in the real” and the requirement of a “double plot” and a double language to convey it. The novel carried this double meaning in the language of mythical symbolism. Bonaparte argues that it is in such language that this fiction must be read.

The Poetics of Poesis: The Making of Nineteenth-Century English Fiction

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Examining nineteenth-century novels and philosophical essays on the conception of fictional form, Felicia Bonaparte sees the novel in this period... Read more

    Publisher: University of Virginia Press
    Publication Date: 11/01/2016
    ISBN13: 9780813937328, 978-0813937328
    ISBN10: 0813937329

    Number of Pages: 328

    Non Fiction , ELT & Literary Studies , Education

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    Examining nineteenth-century novels and philosophical essays on the conception of fictional form, Felicia Bonaparte sees the novel in this period not as the continuation of eighteenth-century “realism” but as a genre unto itself. Determined to address the crises that had shattered the age, and drawing on the thought of the early German Romantics, these novelists created a form that would remake the world. They spoke of this process as poesis, with the purpose of embodying “the idealistic in the real” and the requirement of a “double plot” and a double language to convey it. The novel carried this double meaning in the language of mythical symbolism. Bonaparte argues that it is in such language that this fiction must be read.

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