Narrative Concepts in the Study of Eighteenth-Century Literature
Contributor(s)
Mäkikalli, Aino (editor)
Steinby, Liisa (editor)
Collection
Knowledge Unlatched (KU)Number
100106Language
EnglishAbstract
This collection of essays studies the encounter between allegedly ahistorical concepts of narratology and eighteenth-century literature. It questions whether the general concepts of narratology are as such applicable to historically specific fields, or whether they need further specification. Furthermore, at issue is the question whether the theoretical concepts actually are, despite their appearance of ahistorical generality, derived from the historical study of a particular period and type of literature. In the essays such concepts as genre, plot, character, event, tellability, perspective, temporality, description, reading, metadiegetic narration, and paratext are scrutinized in the context of eighteenth-century texts. The writers include some of the leading theorists of both narratology and eighteenth-century literature.
Keywords
historical narratology; eighteenth-century literature; narrative theoryDOI
10.5117/9789089648747ISBN
9789048527380Publisher
Amsterdam University PressPublisher website
https://www.aup.nl/Publication date and place
Amsterdam, 2017Grantor
Series
Crossing Boundaries: Turku Medieval and Early Modern Studies,Classification
Literary theory