Closure in the Novel / / Marianna Torgovnick.

• VerfasserIn: Torgovnick, Marianna,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017]; ©1981
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 5118
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)

Drawing on a wide range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century English, French, American, and Russian novels, Marianna Torgovnick demonstrates the variety and complexity of the process by which a work reaches an appropriate conclusion.Originally published in 1981.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- ONE. George Eliot and the “Finale” of Middlemarch -- TWO. Closure in Bleak House -- THREE. “Open” and “Closed” Form in War and Peace -- FOUR. Communal Themes and the Outer Frame of The Scarlet -- FIVE. Discomforting the Reader: The Confrontational Endings of Vanity Fair and L'Education sentimentale -- SIX. James's Sense of an Ending: the Role Played in its Development by James's Ideas about Nineteenth-Century Endings -- SEVEN. Gesture and the Ending of The Golden Bowl -- EIGHT. Story-Telling as Affirmation at the End of Light in August -- NINE. Virginia Woolf, the Vision of The Waves, and the Novel's Double Ending -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX