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Jehlen, Myra, author. Five Fictions in Search of Truth / Myra Jehlen. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2008] ©2008 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- PROLOGUE. A Real Madeleine Is a Work of Art -- CHAPTER ONE. Salammbô: Three Rough Stones beneath a Rainy Sky -- CHAPTER TWO. The Sacred Fount: The Case of the Man Who Suddenly Grew Smart -- CHAPTER THREE. The Ambassadors: What He Saw Was Exactly the Right Thing -- CHAPTER FOUR. Lolita: A Beautiful, Banal, Eden-Red Apple -- CHAPTER FIVE. A Simple Heart: Félicité and the Holy Parrot -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Fiction, far from being the opposite of truth, is wholly bent on finding it out, and writing novels is a way to know the real world as objectively as possible. In Five Fictions in Search of Truth, Myra Jehlen develops this idea through readings of works by Flaubert, James, and Nabokov. She invokes Proust's famous search for lost memory as the exemplary literary process, which strives, whatever its materials, for a true knowledge. In Salammbô, Flaubert digs up Carthage; in The Ambassadors, James plumbs the examined life and touches at its limits; while in Lolita, Nabokov traces a search for truth that becomes a trespass. In these readings, form and style emerge as fiction's means for taking hold of reality, which is to say that they are as epistemological as they are aesthetic, each one emerging by way of the other. The aesthetic aspects of a literary work are just so many instruments for exploring a subject, and the beauty and pleasure of a work confirm the validity of its account of the world. For Flaubert, famously, a beautiful sentence was proven true by its beauty. James and Nabokov wrote on the same assumption--that form and style were at once the origin and the confirmation of a work's truth. In Five Fictions in Search of Truth, Jehlen shows, moreover, that fiction's findings are not only about the world but immanent within it. Literature works concretely, through this form, that style, this image, that word, seeking a truth that is equally concrete. Writers write--and readers read--to discover an incarnate, secular knowledge, and in doing so they enact a basic concurrence between literature and science.Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019) Fiction 19th century History and criticism. Fiction 20th century History and criticism. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package 2000-2015 9783110662580 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Univ. Press eBook Package 2000-2013 9783110413434 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton eBook Package Backlist 2000-2014 9783110459531 print 9780691136127 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400828913 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400828913.jpg |
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