Foregrounded description in prose fiction : five cross-literary studies / José Manuel Lopes. by Lopes, José Manuel

Table of Contents: “…Towards a framework for the analysis of description in prose fiction -- II. Description and mise en abyme in Zola's Une Page d'amour -- III. …”
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Maria edgeworth's art of prose fiction. by Harden, O. Elizabeth Macwhorter

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Reading the Graphic Surface : the Presence of the Book in Prose Fiction. by White, Glyn

Table of Contents: “…READING THE GRAPHIC SURFACE: THE PRESENCE OF THE BOOK IN PROSE FICTION; Dedication; Title Page; Copyright; CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1: Reading the graphic surface; Convention, redundancy, noise; Levels, space, metatexts; Why defamiliarisation is not enough; CHAPTER 2: The presence of the book; The manuscript is not the real work; Fixity; Uniformity and individual reading; The book as codex form; CHAPTER 3: The graphic surface in theory; The idealised text; The linguistic model; Writing; Textual voice.…”
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Without the novel : romance and the history of prose fiction / Scott Black. by Black, Scott, 1964-

“…Romance and the history of prose fiction…”
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The spread of novels : translation and prose fiction in the eighteenth century / Mary Helen McMurran. by McMurran, Mary Helen, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Eighteenth-century translating -- Translation and the modern novel -- The business of translation -- Taking liberties : rendering practices in prose fiction -- The cross-Channel emergence of the novel -- Atlantic translation and the undomestic novel.…”
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The Reformation of Romance : the Eucharist, Disguise, and Foreign Fashion in Early Modern Prose Fiction / Christina Wald. by Wald, Christina

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A Henry Fielding companion / Martin C. Battestin. by Battestin, Martin C.

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Mexican Literature : a History. by Foster, David William

Table of Contents: “…4 Nineteenth-Century Prose Fiction --…”
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The secret life of things : animals, objects, and it-narratives in eighteenth-century England / edited by Mark Blackwell.

Table of Contents: “…Speaking objects: the circulation of stories in eighteenth-century prose fiction /…”
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The art of biblical narrative / Robert Alter. by Alter, Robert

Table of Contents: “…Preface to the revised edition -- Preface -- A literary approach to the Bible -- Sacred history and the beginnings of prose fiction -- Biblical type-scenes and the uses of convention -- Between narration and dialogue -- The techniques of repetition -- Characterization and the art of reticence -- Composite artistry -- Narration and knowledge -- Conclusion…”
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A student's guide to classics / Bruce S. Thornton. by Thornton, Bruce S.

Table of Contents: “…; Epic; Poetry; Drama; Prose Fiction; Literary Criticism; Oratory and Rhetoric; Letters; Biography; History; The Classical Heritage; Further Reading; Greek Literature; Roman Literature; Notes; Student Self-Reliance Project: Embarking on a Lifelong Pursuit of Knowledge?…”
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English fictions of communal identity, 1485-1603 / Joshua Phillips. by Phillips, Joshua

Table of Contents: “…The Caxtonian imaginary: knights and the dreams of the Abbey-Lubbers -- Staking claims to utopia: Thomas More, prose fiction, and the matter of belonging -- William Baldwin and communities of fiction -- Anthony Munday, romance, and the production of collective selves -- Hoc opus, hic labor est: Sir Philip Sidney and the work of shame -- Thomas Nashe, thy unworthy speaker to the world.…”
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A history of eighteenth-century British literature / John Richetti, University of Pennsylvania. by Richetti, John J.

Table of Contents: “…Defoe and Prose Fiction -- III. Swift and Gulliver?a#x80;#x99;s Travels -- 6 Prose Fiction in the Mid?…”
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The educated imagination and other writings on critical theory, 1933-1963 / Northrop Frye ; edited by Germaine Warkentin. by Frye, Northrop, 1912-1991

Table of Contents: “…Edgar's Book; 2 Art Does Need Sociability; 3 Music in Poetry; 4 The Anatomy in Prose Fiction; 5 The Nature of Satire; 6 Nichols and Kirkup's The Cosmic Shape; 7 R.F. …”
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John Lyly and early modern authorship. by Kesson, Andy

Table of Contents: “…; PART I: Lyly and prose fiction; CHAPTER 1: Buy the book: imaginative stories in the book market (1566-78); CHAPTER 2: Euph culture: Lyly, Euphues and the market for single-story books (1578-94); PART II: Lyly, performance and print; CHAPTER 3: 'Whatsoever we present': Lyly's elusive theatre (1583-c.1590); CHAPTER 4: 'This is the first': creating a market for printed plays (1584-94); PART III: Euphuism and reception.…”
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Before Borders A Legal and Literary History of Naturalization. by DeGooyer, Stephanie

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Literary History of England : Vol 3: The Restoration and Eighteenth Century (1660-1789). by Sherburn, G.

Table of Contents: “…Comedy; Patterns in Historical Writing; Types of Prose Fiction; The Essay and Allied Forms; Eighteenth-Century Quality; The Critical Temper and Doctrine, 1700-1750; Defoe and Journalism; Jonathan Swift; Addison, Steele, and the Periodical Essay; The Drama, 1700-1740; Traditions in Early Eighteenth-Century Poetry; Pope and His Group; New Voices in Poetry; The Mid-Century Novel.…”
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Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture. by Goring, Paul

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Historical, Cultural and Intellectual Context; Politics and Society; Religion, Science and Philosophy; Arts and Culture; 2 Literature in the Eighteenth Century; Introduction; Major Genres; Periodicals and periodical essays; Poetry; Drama; Prose fiction; Literary Groups; The Kit-Cat Club; The Scriblerus Club; Bluestockings; Samuel Richardson''s circle; Samuel Johnson''s circle and The Club''; 3 Critical Approaches; Historical Overview; Current Issues and Debates; 4 Resources for Independent Study.…”
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Rank and Style : Russians in state service, life and literature / selected essays by Irina Reyfman. by Reyfman, Irina

Table of Contents: “…: revisiting Gogol's Notes of a madman -- Writing and the anxiety of rank : Pushkin's prose fiction -- Pushkin the Kammerherr : on Pushkin's social reputation in the 1830s -- Poetic justice and injustice : autobiographical echoes in Pushkin's The captain's daughter -- Kammerjunker in Notes of a madman : Gogol's view of Pushkin -- Death and mutilation at the dueling site : Pushkin's death as a national spectacle -- The sixth tale of Belkin : Mikhail Zoshchenko as Proteus -- Turgenev's Death and Tolstoy's Three deaths -- Female voice and male gaze in Leo Tolstoy's Family happiness -- Tolstoy and Gogol : Notes of a madman -- Tolstoy the wanderer and the quest for adequate expression -- Alexey Rzhevsky, Russian mannerist -- Imagery of time and eternity in eighteenth-century Russian poetry : Mikhail Muravʹev and Semyon Bobrov -- Dishonor by flogging and restoration by dancing : Leskov's response to Dostoevsky.…”
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See under: Shoah : imagining the Holocaust with David Grossman / edited by Marc De Kesel, Bettine Siertsema, Katarzyna Szurmiak.

Table of Contents: “…The Holocaust's muses-on voices, appropriation and misappropriation in Grossman's novel and W.G. Sebald's prose fiction / Jan Ceuppens -- Part 4. See under: political -- 8. …”
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