J. Clayton McReynolds

Reading Words into Worlds

Phenomenological Mimesis of Givenness in the Novel

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Produktbeschreibung

Reading Words into Worlds asks: how can reading a novel make us feel as if we are living in a world? The book argues that novels can give themselves to a reader in ways that mimetically resemble the givenness of beings in extra-textual reality. This theory is then grounded in close readings of four British realist novels.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 459g
• ISBN-13: 9781032635422
• ISBN-10: 1032635428
• Artikelnr.: 70151730

Autorenporträt

J. Clayton McReynolds received his Ph.D. in English Literature from Baylor University. He currently teaches literature, history, speech, and writing at Arma Dei Academy. His research interests include the phenomenology of reading, realism, and the rise of the novel, and his work has been published in Dickens Studies Annual and The Journal of Inklings Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE: The Ontological Origin of the Novel
CHAPTER TWO: The Visible Hand of Daniel Defoe: The Phenomenological Mimesis
of God-Givenness in Robinson Crusoe
CHAPTER THREE: Reading Austen's Reality: The Phenomenological Mimesis of
Authorial-Givenness in Northanger Abbey
CHAPTER FOUR: Being-As Bulstrode: The Phenomenological Mimesis of
Self-Givenness in Middlemarch
CHAPTER FIVE: Hardy's Anthropomorphous Forces: The Phenomenological Mimesis
of Cruel Givenness in Jude the Obscure
CONCLUSION: The Fruits of Phenomenological Mimesis
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Index