The Narratology of Observation : : Studies in a Technique of European Literary Realism / / Martin Wagner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2019 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Wagner, Martin,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2018]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Paradigms : Literature and the Human Sciences , 7
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (IX, 183 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Acknowledgments --; Contents --; Table of Figures --; Introduction --; Chapter 1: Description and Narration --; Chapter 2: Before Observation (Le Diable boiteux) --; Chapter 3: Observation (Les Nuits de Paris) --; Chapter 4: Failing Observations --; Chapter 5: Another Form of Observation? (Sherlock Holmes) --; Conclusion: Literary Observation after 1900 --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110594348; 9783110762464; 9783110719567; 9783110616859; 9783110604252; 9783110603255; 9783110604184; 9783110603187
• ISSN: 2195-2205
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110594348
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Martin Wagner.

How does literature evoke reality? This book takes cues from the history of scientific observation to provide a new approach to this longstanding question of literary studies. It reconstructs a narrative technique of ‘literary’ observation in which reality appears by mimicking processes of visual perception, and it traces the functioning of this technique through a wide range of European fiction from the early 18th to the late 19th centuries.