Extravagant Narratives : : Closure and Dynamics in the Epistolary Form / / Elizabeth Jane MacArthur.
Challenging the view of epistolary narrative as a faulty precursor to the nineteenth-century realist novel, Elizabeth MacArthur argues that the openness and flexibility that characterize correspondences, both real and fictional, reflect the preoccupations of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centu...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1990 |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Edition: | Course Book |
Language: | English |
Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (308 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- CHAPTER ONE. The Genesis of Epistolary Narrative in the Seventeenth Century
- CHAPTER TWO. Plotting a Metonymical Life Story: The Correspondence of Madame du Deffand and Horace Walpole
- CHAPTER THREE. The Open Dynamic of Narrative: Metaphor and Metonymy in Rousseau's Julie
- Closing
- Bibliography
- Index