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Textual Encounters : = Reading Character in the Nineteenth-Century Novel.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Textual Encounters :/
其他題名:	Reading Character in the Nineteenth-Century Novel.
作者:	Sirota, Lauren R.
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (247 pages)
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-01, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International84-01A.
標題:	Literature. -
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ISBN:	9798438777953

Textual Encounters : = Reading Character in the Nineteenth-Century Novel.
Sirota, Lauren R.

Textual Encounters :Reading Character in the Nineteenth-Century Novel. - 1 online resource (247 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-01, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Michigan, 2022.

Includes bibliographical references

Textual Encounters: Reading Character in the Nineteenth-Century Novel explores how readers experience fictional character in ways that reflect the textual nature of real social encounters, and examines how that experience is facilitated by formal features of the realist novel. By considering how formal elements of the novel-including free-indirect discourse, omniscient narrative voice, first-person narrative, unreliable narration, and epistolarity-can mimic and exploit the incompleteness that occurs in real social encounters, this dissertation makes the claim that experiencing characters as real persons is not an accidental or problematic side effect of reading realist fiction, but instead a natural result of our phenomenological experience in the real world and an effect cultivated by the novel's formal choices. Through readings of key novels by Jane Austen, George Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, and Anthony Trollope, Textual Encounters examines how the realist novel explores, both formally and thematically, the possibilities and limitations of reading others as texts.Part I focuses on third-person narratives and argues that that nineteenth-century novels formally exploit cognitive mechanisms, like theory of mind and cognitive framing, in order to naturalize readers' encounters with fictional characters. Chapter I offers a reading of Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma, suggesting characters in these novels practice strategies of omniscience and free-indirect discourse to navigate the gaps inherent to social encounters. By emphasizing the epistemological similarities between encounters with real and fictional others, these novels posit omniscience and free indirect discourse not as strange, fictional activities but a natural part of social experience. Chapter II's reading of Middlemarch builds upon the discussion of incompleteness in Chapter I by exploring the function of cognitive frames in Eliot's characterization and their connection to her aesthetic and sympathetic project. Middlemarch highlights a fluidity between real and fictional social experience, suggesting both a cognitive basis for imagining characters as persons and an avenue for integrating fictional encounters into readers' understandings of reality.While Part I of this dissertation focuses on the techniques of third-person omniscient narration, Part II highlights the ontological ambivalence of two specific first-person forms, the fictional autobiography and epistolarity. Chapter III examines two fictional autobiographies by Bronte, Jane Eyre and Villette, suggesting that fictional first-person novels rely on the reader's capacity for constructing others through narrative as well as their familiarity with the conventions of non-fictional life writing. These novels point to the self as inherently constructed and fictional, and emphasizes the reader's role in producing textually-constructed selves. Finally, Chapter IV examines letter exchanges in Trollope's He Knew He Was Right and The Way We Live Now, which serve to highlight one literal way real persons can be encountered as texts. Trollope's use of letters collapses the interpretive position of intra- and extratextual reader in ways that highlight the shared fictionality of real and literary representation.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798438777953Subjects--Topical Terms:

537498
Literature.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Nineteenth-century literatureIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

542853
Electronic books.

Textual Encounters : = Reading Character in the Nineteenth-Century Novel.
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