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Sto caricando le informazioni... Savage Reprisals: Bleak House, Madame Bovary, Buddenbrooks (2002)di Peter Gay
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This succinct volume argues that we need to be careful when we use fiction, even Realistic fiction, as historical documents. Gay's chief point is that fictional authors often have personal agendas. Unlike historians, they are have neither a professional obligation to attempt to be objective, nor a requirement to support their points with references to sources and authorities. Although he focuses on three books, Gay refers the entire oeuvre of the authors as well as incidents in their lives in making his points. In keeping with his historian's standards, he includes a bibliography and footnotes. It is probably not absolutely necessary to have read the books that he cites, although it helps to have at least some knowledge about the works. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Focusing on three literary masterpieces--Charles Dickens's Bleak House (1853), Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary (1857), and Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks (1901)--Peter Gay, a leading cultural historian, demonstrates that there is more than one way to read a novel. Typically, readers believe that fiction, especially the Realist novels that dominated Western culture for most of the nineteenth century and beyond, is based on historical truth and that great novels possess a documentary value. That trust, Gay brilliantly shows, is misplaced; novels take their own path to reality. Using Dickens, Flaubert, and Mann as his examples, Gay explores their world, their craftsmanship, and their minds. In the process, he discovers that all three share one overriding quality: a resentment and rage against the society that sustains the novel itself. Using their stylish writing as a form of revenge, they deal out savage reprisals, which have become part of our Western literary canon. A New York Times Notable Book and a Best Book of 2002. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)809.3Literature By Topic History, description and criticism of more than two literatures FictionClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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