Prosaics and other provocations : : empathy, open time, and the novel / / Gary Saul Morson ; cover design by Ivan Grave.
This far-ranging study develops Morson's concept of "prosaics," which stresses the importance of ordinary events and the novel's unique ability to portray them. Arguing that time is open and contingency real, Morson develops a "prosaics of process" showing how some mast...
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| Superior document: | Ars Rossica |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Brighton, Massachussetts : : Academic Studies Press,, 2013. ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Ars Rossika.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (300 p.) |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- Front matter
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface / Bethea, David M.
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part One. Overture
- Chapter One. What Is Prosaics?
- Part Two. What Is Open Time?
- Chapter Two. Narrativeness
- Chapter Three. The Prosaics of Process
- Part Three. What Is Misanthropology?
- Chapter Four. Misanthropology: Voyeurism and Human Nature / Chudo, Alicia
- Chapter Five. Misanthropology, Continued: Disgust, Violence, and More on Voyeurism / Chudo, Alicia
- Chapter Six. Misanthropology in Verse: An Onegin of Our Times / Chudo, Alicia
- Part Four. What Is Literary Education?
- Chapter Seven: Novelistic Empathy, and How to Teach It
- Part Five. What Is Wit?
- Chapter Eight: Contingency, Games, and Wit
- Index