Thackeray And Form Of Fiction

Author : John Loofbourow
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400879243

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Thackeray and Form of Fiction by John Loofbourow Pdf

In a critical examination of Thackeray's style, Mr. Loofbourow shows how Thackeray "hybridized" the genre of the romance by adapting the tone and language of the epic, the chivalric romance, and the pastoral, and by carrying parody and satire to a high technical level. Thackeray used these techniques with particular success in Vanity Fair and Henry Esmond. Besides analyzing these two works, Mr. Loofbourow discusses the significance of epic in the 19th century, the expressive values of the novel as a whole, and the relevance of Thackeray’s methods to the work of such writers as George Eliot, Henry James, Virginia Woolf, and E. M. Forster. His book is an attempt to come to terms with Thackeray’s style, and a work conceivably destined to become a landmark among the very few acceptable studies of English fiction. It should prove indispensable to anyone interested in style in fiction, and should at the same time precipitate a new trend in Thackeray scholarship. Originally published in 1964. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Michael Lund
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0814319882

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Reading Thackeray by Michael Lund Pdf

Although scholars are aware that serialization was the usual publication format for the Victorian novel, few take into account how this special reading experience affected the meaning of Thackeray's novels for his audience. Thackeray used a number of techniques to encourage his readers to take an active and prolonged part in his installment fiction. Michael Lund's study focuses on the reading of Thackeray's novels and investigates how Victorian understanding of Vanity Fair and Thackeray's other major texts was significantly shaped by the manner in which readers encountered these novels. Situating modern readers in the context of the Victorian audience, particularly within the monthly serial mode, Lund demonstrates in what ways Thackeray made use of his readers' prolonged commitment to his fictional worlds to shape and refine Victorian culture in positive ways.

Author : John Loofbourow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:473885205

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Thackeray and the Form of Fiction by John Loofbourow Pdf

Author : william makepeace thackeray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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vanity fair by william makepeace thackeray Pdf

Author : Zelma Catalan
Publisher : Zelma Catalan
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Irony in literature
ISBN : 9540728231

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The Politics of Irony in Thackeray's Mature Fiction by Zelma Catalan Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HNB5VL

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Thackeray's Novels by Anonim Pdf

Author : Phillip Collins,Paul Wachtel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1983-02-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781349170104

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Thackeray by Phillip Collins,Paul Wachtel Pdf

Author : Rowland McMaster
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Allusions in literature
ISBN : 0773508384

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Thackeray's Cultural Frame of Reference by Rowland McMaster Pdf

Thackeray's The Newcomes has been described as one of the richest of Victorian fictions. In Thackeray's Cultural Frame of Reference, R.D. McMaster unveils the magnitude of this richness.

Author : Judith L. Fisher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351895392

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Thackeray’s Skeptical Narrative and the ‘Perilous Trade’ of Authorship by Judith L. Fisher Pdf

Drawing on the rhetorical work of James Phelan, Wayne Booth's ethical criticism, recent work on William Makepeace Thackeray, as well as an understanding of the role of skepticism in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English thought, Thackeray's Skeptical Narrative and the "Perilous Trade" of Authorship makes a substantial contribution to nineteenth-century reading practices, as well as narratology in general. Judith Fisher combines in this study rhetorical and ethical analysis of Thackeray's narrative techniques to trace how his fiction develops to educate his reader into what she terms a "hermeneutic of skepticism." This is a kind of poised reading which enables his readers to integrate his fiction into their life in what Thackeray called "a world without God" without becoming pessimistic or fatalistic. Although Thackeray's narrative strategies have been the subject of study, most have focused on Vanity Fair and Henry Esmond only, and none look as closely as does this study at actual rhetorical techniques such as his use of pronominalization to interpolate the reader into his skeptical discourse. Fisher also brings her analysis to bear on The Adventures of Philip and The Virginians, Thackeray's last two complete novels, both of which were critical failures even as contemporary critics acknowledged their stylistic excellence. This is the first study to attempt to understand the puzzle of those two books; Fisher recovers them from their marginalized position in Thackeray's oeuvre. Fisher expertly weaves an accessible narrative theory with thoroughgoing knowledge of Thackeray's life in an integrated reading of his entire works. Reading Thackeray holistically in spite of his own disruptive practices, she does full justice to his critical skepticism while elucidating his canon for a new readership.

Author : Richard Salmon,Alice Crossley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317045649

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Thackeray in Time by Richard Salmon,Alice Crossley Pdf

An intense fascination with the experience of time has long been recognised as a distinctive feature of the writing of William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863). This collection of essays, however, represents the first sustained critical examination of Thackeray's 'time consciousness' in all its varied manifestations. Encompassing the full chronological span of the author's career and a wide range of literary forms and genres in which he worked, Thackeray in Time repositions Thackeray's temporal and historical self-consciousness in relation to the broader socio-cultural contexts of Victorian modernity. The first part of the collection focusses on some of the characteristic temporal modes of professional authorship and print culture in the mid-nineteenth century, including periodical journalism and the Christmas book market. Secondly, the volume offers fresh approaches to Thackeray's acknowledged status as a major exponent of historical fiction, reconsidering questions of historiography and the representation of place in such novels as Vanity Fair and Henry Esmond. The final part of the collection develops the central Thackerayan theme of memory within four very different but complementary contexts. Thackeray's absorption by memories of childhood in later life leads on to his own subsequent memorialisation by familial descendants and to the potential of digital technology for preserving and enhancing Thackeray's print archive in the future, and finally to the critical legacy perpetuated by generations of literary scholars since his death.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Chelsea House
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : UCAL:B4972991

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William Makepeace Thackeray by Harold Bloom Pdf

A collection of thirteen critical essays, arranged in chronological order of publication, devoted to the works of the nineteenth- century English writer.

Author : John Robert Reed
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Didactic fiction, English
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Dickens and Thackeray by John Robert Reed Pdf

Author : Ina Ferris
Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015008595962

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William Makepeace Thackeray by Ina Ferris Pdf

Discusses Thackeray as a Victorian realist and then critically evaluates his novels Vanity Fair, Henry Esmond, The Newcomers, etc.

Author : Geoffrey Tillotson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000891799

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Thackeray by Geoffrey Tillotson Pdf

First published in 1954, Thackeray is intended as a reminder that Thackeray is, after all, a great novelist. Professor Tillotson, admiring the novels as great literature, explores their common characteristics and those they share with the rest of Thackeray’s writings – for he sees Thackeray’s work as all of a piece. He is particularly interested in Thackeray’s methods of narration and in the philosophic commentary which forms a sort of trellis for almost everything he put out. He sees him mainly as a writer who, subtle as he is, address himself to readers honoured as ordinary human beings. In two appendices, Professor Tillotson deals with two particular modern opinions – that Thackeray spoiled his novels by an ‘infiltration’ into them of his own biography, and that he has no place in the great novel tradition. This book will be of interest to students of literature and history.

Author : Ahmed Savkar Altinel
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015015357414

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Thackeray and the Problem of Realism by Ahmed Savkar Altinel Pdf

Although it is traditional to see a certain kind of «realism» as the essence of fiction, in practice novels of course offer not a simple reproduction of experience but a throughgoing organization of it. The novel is, after all, a bourgeois genre and it reflects that bourgeois view of life according to which the world is there merely to be dominated and controlled by man. This study examines both Thackeray's early fiction, in which both the novel form and the manipulative society to which it belongs are attacked, and his later works, in which they are defended, and tries to determine the reasons for this change.