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Text to Reader seeks to find a critical approach that links a novel's form to its socio-cultural context. Combining elements from Iser's reception aesthetics, speech act theory, and Goffman's frame analysis, this book starts from the assumption that a reader has certain conventional expectations with regard to a novel, and then goes on to examine how violations of these expectations rule the reader's relationship to the novel. The theory sketched in the first chapter is then, in four subsequent chapters, applied to The French Lieutenant's Woman by the English author John Fowles, Letters by the American John Barth, Libro de Manuel by the Argentinean Julio Cortázar, and De Kapellekensbaan by the Flemish novelist Louis-Paul Boon. The particular form each of these novels takes is analyzed as correlative to that novel's communicative function. This book will be of interest to comparatists, students of English and American literature, and the literatures of Latin-America and the Low Countries.
The 19th century laid the foundations of history, both professional and popular. The authors of this collection compare Britain, the Netherlands, and Belgium, unearthing the ways in which history was conceived and then utilized, usually for nationalistic purposes.
Vorbemerkung. [Die flamische Literatur im Ueberblick]. Anhang : Verdeutschungen einiger Gedichte Gezelle's. Pachthofszene (Gekiirzt). - o. t. : PachthofschHderinge. (Uit : Dichtoefeningen). Aurora. - O. t. : Aurora. (Uit : Gedichten, gezangen & gebeden). Warum docH konnen wir nicht. - O. t. : Waarom en kunnen wij niet. (ld.). Die Fliege. - Z. t., Ie vs. : 0 Gij dikke, welgekleede, welgevoede (Uit: Tijd. krans). - In: latere uitgn. get. : De vliege. Nicht ganzlicn werd ich sterben! - Z. t., Ie vs. : Is 't mooglijk dat (Id.). - In latere uitgn. get. : Niet heel en zal ik sterven! 's 1st stille - Z. t., Ie vs. : 't Is stille! Neerstig tikt het on. (Id.). Der Rabe. - Z. t., Ie vs. : Met zwart. e...
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
The Encyclopedia of the Novel is the first reference book that focuses on the development of the novel throughout the world. Entries on individual writers assess the place of that writer within the development of the novel form, explaining why and in exactly what ways that writer is importnant. Similarly, an entry on an individual novel discusses the importance of that novel not only form, analyzing the particular innovations that novel has introduced and the ways in which it has influenced the subsequent course of the genre. A wide range of topic entries explore the history, criticism, theory, production, dissemination and reception of the novel. A very important component of the Encyclopedia of the Novel is its long surveys of development of the novel in various regions of the world.