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Existentialism, realism, and the novel.

Ong, Yi-Ping.

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Existentialism, realism, and the novel.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Existentialism, realism, and the novel./
作者:	Ong, Yi-Ping.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2009,
面頁冊數:	296 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-11, Section: A, page: 4279.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International70-11A.
標題:	Comparative literature. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3385472
ISBN:	9781109496123

Existentialism, realism, and the novel.
Ong, Yi-Ping.

Existentialism, realism, and the novel. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2009 - 296 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-11, Section: A, page: 4279.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2009.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

Bringing together theories of the novel and existentialism, this study demonstrates that the realist novel fundamentally changed the methods and aims of philosophy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by developing unique and compelling forms for the representation of reality. Using archival and biographical sources, this study examines in a more systematic way than previous scholars have done why thinkers such as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, Beauvoir, and Camus not only read the realist novel, but also incorporated novelistic forms and techniques into their philosophical writing. For these philosophers, the realist novel was the equivalent and not merely the illustration of a philosophical view of life. The existentialists were drawn to the realist novel not because it gives a detailed description of empirical experience or because it accurately portrays social conditions, but because the realist novel gives a view of life that emerges from the particular and contingent circumstances of individuals.

ISBN: 9781109496123Subjects--Topical Terms:

570001
Comparative literature.

Existentialism, realism, and the novel.
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