Rhetoric and Pleasure
Readings in Realist Literature. Dissertationsschrift
(Sprache: Englisch)
This study treats, after a discussion on literary theory, rhetorical and conventional aspects of realist novels from three different cultures: La regenta by the Spaniard Leopoldo Alas (1852-1901), the feminist novel Constance Ring by the Norwegian author...
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This study treats, after a discussion on literary theory, rhetorical and conventional aspects of realist novels from three different cultures: La regenta by the Spaniard Leopoldo Alas (1852-1901), the feminist novel Constance Ring by the Norwegian author Amalie Skram (1846-1905) and three Roman novels by the Dutch writer Louis Couperus (1863-1923). The author argues that part of the meaning of these novels is influenced and in some cases even rendered undecidable by the use of rhetorical figures and tropes or by the exigencies of literary decorum. Part of the rhetoric is strongly estheticizing: it generates a plaisir du texte , and also threatens the postulated "serious" or "emancipatory" meaning of the texts.Van Luxemburg's rhetorical analysis is influenced by the deconstructionist criticism of among others Roland Barthes, J. Hillis Miller, Paul de Man and Adena Rosmarin. His book covers the representation of women, of servants and slaves and (in relation to this) the depiction of morality and religion.
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Contents: The impact of rhetoric - Plaisir du texte - Narrative conventions - Deconstruction - The (undermining) influence of rhetorical figures and tropes and of narrative conventions on the interpretation of some realist and naturalist novels.
Autoren-Porträt von Jan van Luxemburg
The Author: Jan van Luxemburg was born in 1936 in Haarlem, The Netherlands. He studied classics and general literature at the University of Amsterdam. He has published on literary theory, on interpretation, and on diverse authors. Since 1975 he is associate professor in general and comparative literature at the University of Amsterdam.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Jan van Luxemburg
- 1992, Neuausg., 231 Seiten, Maße: 15,1 x 20,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Peter Lang
- ISBN-10: 3631447299
- ISBN-13: 9783631447291
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.06.1992
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Englisch
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"'Rhetoric and Pleasure' will appeal to a wide range of academic and non-academic readers, notably because it is written in a clear, lucid and straightforward manner." (Henk van der Liet, Scandinavica)Kommentar zu "Rhetoric and Pleasure"
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