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Publication Date
1995-10-11
Pages
256
ISBN
9780822316466
Book Title
All Is True : the Claims and Strategies of Realist Fiction
Publisher
Duke University Press
Item Length
9.8 in
Publication Year
1995
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
0.6 in
Author
Lilian R. Furst
Genre
Literary Criticism
Topic
General, Semiotics & Theory, Subjects & Themes / General
Item Weight
16 Oz
Item Width
5.9 in
Number of Pages
256 Pages

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Publisher
Duke University Press
ISBN-10
0822316463
ISBN-13
9780822316466
eBay Product ID (ePID)
389674

Product Key Features

Book Title
All Is True : the Claims and Strategies of Realist Fiction
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General, Semiotics & Theory, Subjects & Themes / General
Publication Year
1995
Genre
Literary Criticism
Author
Lilian R. Furst
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
16 Oz
Item Length
9.8 in
Item Width
5.9 in

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LCCN
95-013072
Reviews
"A work of synthetic scholarship that re-visions the field of late 19th-century realism comprehensively, All is True treats quite wonderfully and originally the implied acts of reading and reacting to such fiction-what is demanded of the reader and how the reader is guided to these demands. And it treats the inner life of consciousness that realism can elicit, the points of view that it takes, the language and illusions it must inevitably use, and the names that haunt it."-James Engell, Harvard University, "A truly outstanding work. I would be hard pressed to think of a more scholarly, more substantial, more insightful study on European realism."-Virgil Nemoianu, Catholic University of America, "A truly outstanding work. I would be hard pressed to think of a more scholarly, more substantial, more insightful study on European realism."--Virgil Nemoianu, Catholic University of America, "A work of synthetic scholarship that re-visions the field of late 19th-century realism comprehensively, All is True treats quite wonderfully and originally the implied acts of reading and reacting to such fiction--what is demanded of the reader and how the reader is guided to these demands. And it treats the inner life of consciousness that realism can elicit, the points of view that it takes, the language and illusions it must inevitably use, and the names that haunt it."--James Engell, Harvard University
Dewey Edition
20
Dewey Decimal
809
Synopsis
"All is true," realist writers would say of their work, to which critics now respond: All is art and artifice. Offering a new approach to reading nineteenth-century realist fiction, Lilian R. Furst seeks to reconcile these contradictory claims. In doing so, she clarifies the deceptions, appropriations, intentions, and ultimately the power of literary realism. In close textual analyses of works ranging across European and American literature, including paradigmatic texts by Balzac, Flaubert, George Eliot, Zola, Henry James, and Thomas Mann, Furst shows how the handling of time, the presentation of place, and certain narrational strategies have served the realists' claim. She demonstrates how readers today, like those a hundred years ago, are convinced of the authenticity of the created illusion by such means as framing, voice, perspective, and the slippage from metonymy to metaphor. Further, Furst reveals the pains the realists took to conceal these devices, and thus to protect their claim to be employing a simple form. Taking into account both the claims and the covert strategies of these writers, All Is True puts forward an alternative to the conventional polarized reading of the realist text--which emerges here as neither strictly an imitation of an extraneous model nor simply a web of words but a brilliantly complex imbrication of the two. A major statement on one of the most enduring forms in cultural history, this book promises to alter not only our view of realist fiction but our understanding of how we read it.
LC Classification Number
PN98.R4F87 1995
Copyright Date
1995
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