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