Defoe And Fictional Time
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Defoe And Fictional Time
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Author : Paul K. Alkon
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2010-08-01
Defoe And Fictional Time written by Paul K. Alkon and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Defoe and Fictional Time shows Defoe's relevance to issues now central to criticism of the novel; relationships between narrative time and clock time, the influence of time concepts shared by writers and their audience, and above all the questions of how fiction shapes the phenomenal time of reading. Paul K. Alkon offers first a study of time in Defoe's fiction, with glances at Richardson, Fielding, and Sterne; and second a theoretical discussion of time in fiction. Arguing that eighteenth-century views of history account for the strange chronologies in Captain Singleton, Colonel Jack, Moll Flanders, and Roxana, Alkon explores Defoe's innovative use of narrative sequences, frequency, spatial form, chronology, settings, tempo, and the reader's cumulative memories of a text. Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year is the first portrayal of a public duration—passing time shared by an entire population during a crisis—ranking Defoe among the most creative writers who have explored the way in which fictional time may influence reading time.
Defoe And Fictional Time
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Author : Paul Kent Alkon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
Defoe And Fictional Time written by Paul Kent Alkon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Time in literature categories.
Defoe S Major Fiction
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Author : Elizabeth R. Napier
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date : 2016-01-28
Defoe S Major Fiction written by Elizabeth R. Napier and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book focuses on the pervasive concern with narrativity and self-construction that marks Defoe’s first-person fictional narratives. Defoe’s fictions focus obsessively and elaborately on the act of storytelling—not only in his creation of idiosyncratic voices preoccupied with the telling (and often the concealing) of their own life stories but also in his narrators’ repeated adversion to other, untold stories that compete for attention with their own. Defoe’s narratives raise profound questions about selfhood and agency (as well as demonstrate competing attitudes about narration) in his fictive worlds. His canon exhibits a broad range of first-person fictional accounts, from pseudo-memoir (A Journal of the Plague Year, Memoirs of a Cavalier) to criminal autobiography (Moll Flanders) to confession (Roxana), and the narrators of these accounts (secretive, compulsive, fractive) exhibit an array of resistances to the telling of their life stories. Such experiments with narration evince Defoe’s deep involvement in projects of self-description and -delineation, as he interrogates the boundaries of the self and dramatizes the arduousness of self-accounting. Defoe’s fictions are emphatically consciousness-centered and the significance of such a focus to the development of the novel is patently as great as is his “realistic” style. Defoe’s narrative project, in fact, challenges current views on the moment at which inwardness and interiority begin, as Lukács argued, to comprise the subject matter of the novel, implicitly attributing to identity and consciousness a place of signal and complex importance in the new genre.
The Cambridge Companion To Daniel Defoe
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Author : John Richetti
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2009-01-15
The Cambridge Companion To Daniel Defoe written by John Richetti and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Daniel Defoe had an eventful and adventurous life as a merchant, politician, spy and literary hack. He is one of the eighteenth century's most lively, innovative and important authors, famous not only for his novels, including Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, and Roxana, but for his extensive work in journalism, political polemic and conduct guides, and for his pioneering 'Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain'. This volume surveys the wide range of Defoe's fiction and non-fiction, and assesses his importance as writer and thinker. Leading scholars discuss key issues in Defoe's novels, and show how the man who was once pilloried for his writings emerges now as a key figure in the literature and culture of the early eighteenth century.
Defoe S Fiction
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Author : Ian A. Bell
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-12-16
Defoe S Fiction written by Ian A. Bell and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-16 with Fiction categories.
First published in 1985, Defoe’s Fiction explores Defoe’s work by considering it in the context of its genre. The book highlights the difficulty of placing Defoe’s fiction in the most appropriate context due to it being aimed primarily at a popular market, in contrast to the more literary productions of Pope, Swift, or Addison. It also comments on the trend of focusing on Defoe’s irony or emphasising his mimetic power. In doing so, it seeks to explain, rather than judge, Defoe’s achievement by looking at his whole body of work in the context of its genre. Defoe’s Fiction will appeal to those with an interest in Defoe, comparative literature, and the history of literary criticism.
The Life Strange Surprising Adventures Of Daniel Defoe
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Author : Richard West
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
The Life Strange Surprising Adventures Of Daniel Defoe written by Richard West and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Literary Criticism categories.
Daniel Defoe's life was packed with incident and drama. Born in the year of the Restoration of the Monarchy after the English Civil War, he remained a nonconformist throughout his life, actively rebelled against James II, travelled the country as a spy for King William and Queen Mary, worked in Scotland on active behalf of the historic Union of Scotland and England, helped launch the South Sea Company, was bankrupted frequently as a businessman, was imprisoned for libel and debt, and died a pauper.
Defoe S Politics
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Author : Manuel Schonhorn
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1991-03-29
Defoe S Politics written by Manuel Schonhorn and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-03-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
This study restores Defoe's writings and ideas to their seventeenth-century context.
The Life Of Daniel Defoe
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Author : John Richetti
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2005-12-30
The Life Of Daniel Defoe written by John Richetti and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-12-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The Life of Daniel Defoe examines the entire range of Defoe’s writing in the context of what is known about his life and opinions. Features extended and detailed commentaries on Defoe’s political, religious, moral, and economic journalism, as well as on all of his narrative fictions, including Robinson Crusoe Places emphasis on Defoe’s distinctive style and rhetoric Situates his work within the precise historical circumstances of the eighteenth-century in which Defoe was an important and active participant Now available in paperback
Defoe And The Whig Novel
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Author : Leon Guilhamet
language : en
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Release Date : 2010
Defoe And The Whig Novel written by Leon Guilhamet and has been published by University of Delaware Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with History categories.
Defoe's fictional settings all begin in the reign of the Stuarts, but the lack of specificity invariably reflects on the Hanoverian political and social situation, which witnessed a crisis in Whig leadership from 1717 to Walpole's resumption of power after the disaster of the South Sea Bubble and the sudden deaths of Stanhope and Sunderland. This serious split in Whig leadership probably played a role in Defoe's turning toward fiction. But Defoe never abandoned his social and political views. This study explores how his social viewpoint actuates his major fiction. --
Daniel Defoe
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Author : Maximillian E. Novak
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Daniel Defoe written by Maximillian E. Novak and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Daniel Defoe led an exciting and indeed precarious life. A provocative pamphleteer and journalist, a spy and double agent, a revolutionary and a dreamer, he was variously hunted by mobs with murderous intent and treated as a celebrity by the most powerful leaders of the country. Imprisoned many times, pilloried and reviled by his enemies, through it all he managed to produce some of the most significant literature of the eighteenth century. Daniel Defoe: Master of Fictions is the first biography to view Defoe's complex life through the angle of vision that is most important to us as modern readers--his career as a writer. Maximillian Novak, a leading authority on Defoe, ranges from the writer's earliest collection of brief stories, which he presented to his future wife under the sobriquet Bellmour, to his Compleat English Gentleman, left unpublished at his death. Novak illuminates such works as Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders, novels that changed the course of fiction in their time and have remained towering classics to this day. And he reveals a writer who was a superb observer of his times--an age of dramatic historical, political, and social change. Indeed, through his many pamphlets, newspapers, books of travel, and works of fiction, Defoe commented on everything from birth control to the price of coal, and from flying machines to the dangers of the plague. Beautifully and authoritatively written, this is the first serious, full-scale biography of Defoe to appear in a decade. It gives us, for the first time, a full understanding of the thought and personal experience that lie behind some of the great works of English literature.