The Realist Author and Sympathetic Imagination

The Realist Author and Sympathetic Imagination
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 432
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ISBN-10 : 9781351191852
ISBN-13 : 1351191853
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Book Synopsis The Realist Author and Sympathetic Imagination by : Sotirios Paraschas

Download or read book The Realist Author and Sympathetic Imagination written by Sotirios Paraschas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The nineteenth century realist author was a contradictory figure. He was the focus of literary criticism, but obscured his creative role by insisting on presenting his works as 'copies' of reality. He was a celebrity who found himself subservient to publishers and the public, in a newly-industrialised literary marketplace. He was the owner of his work who was divested of his property by imperfect copyright laws, playwrights who adapted his novels for the stage, and sequel-writers. This combination of a conspicuous yet precarious status with a self-effacing attitude was expressed by an image of the author as a plural, Protean subject, possessing the faculty of sympathetic imagination - which the realists incorporated in their works in the form of a series of fictional characters who functioned as 'doubles' of the author. Paraschas focuses on two realists, Honorede Balzac and George Eliot, and traces this authorial scenario from its origins in the late eighteenth century to its demise in the early twentieth century, examining its presence in the works of E.T.A. Hoffmann, Friedrich Schlegel, Charles Baudelaire and Andre Gide."


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