Shawn Normandin

Jane Austen and Literary Theory (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Jane Austen and Literary Theory proceeds reveals how Austen anticipated the ideas of formidable literary thinkers of the twentieth-century, and will enable both her devotees and her detractors to appreciate her genius in unusual ways.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000348453
• Artikelnr.: 60995366

Autorenporträt

Shawn Normandin is an associate professor of English at Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Literary Theory and Austen Criticism
Deconstruction, Francophobia, Austen
Austen, Historicism, Theory
Austen and the Play of the Signifier
Chapter 1: "Evelyn" and the Impossibility of the Gift
"Evelyn" and Derridean Gift Theory
Literary Language and the Contradictions of the Gift
Austen, Derrida, and Capitalism
Chapter 2: Speech, Writing, and Allegory in Pride and Prejudice
Phonocentrism: From Derrida to the Eighteenth Century and Beyond
Phonocentrism in Pride and Prejudice
Writing's Rehabilitation
Dancing about Arche-Writing
Chapter 3: Allegory, Symbol, and Irony in Mansfield Park
Austen, Coleridge, Burke
The Fall of Symbol and the Rise of Allegory
Between Allegory and Irony: The Last Chapter
Between Allegory and Symbol: Lovers' Vows
Chapter 4: Emma's Parergonal Realism
Kant, Derrida, and the Parergon
Emma's "Schemes in the In-Betweens"
Parergonal Lack
Parergonal Verse/Parergonal Prose
Confronting Front Matter
Sex and Citationality
Emma's Headers and Footers
Horrors of Finery
Framing "Nothing"
Chapter 5: Austen's Unromantic Romantic Ironies
From Comic to (German) Romantic Irony
Theorizing Parabasis: Fichte, Schlegel, and de Man
Parabasis of Parabasis in Emma
Tracing Austen's Irony: "The History of England"
Closing the Ironic Opening of Pride and Prejudice
Mr. Bennet: Being Ironic
Irony and the Sublime