Theme and variation : essayistic lineages in four 20th century Spanish-American and German novels
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- My dissertation offers a revisionist account of a novelistic tendency generally called "essayism, " in terms of its development vis-à-vis the realist novel and twentieth century literary experiments, within two distinct literary traditions: those of Europe and of Latin America. It explores the insights that essayistic theory can provide into the comparative writing of authority in these contexts, and argues for a more diversified approach than is currently taken to essayistic aesthetics in the study of fiction and other hybrid genres— despite the essay's unmanageable diversity of forms and the impossibly broad set of claims for its uniqueness. My case studies focus on the disjuncture between the much-discussed twentieth-century European essay-novel and its Latin American counterpart, which develops in dialogue with an influential body of essayistic work and tradition. The essayistic novel as seen in this broadened context is symptomatic of an ongoing quarrel between the moral claims of fictional and non-fictional writing.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2014 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Ferguson, Jessie Byron |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Comparative Literature. |
| Primary advisor | Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich |
| Thesis advisor | Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich |
| Thesis advisor | Berman, Russell A, 1950- |
| Thesis advisor | Hoyos Ayala, Héctor |
| Advisor | Berman, Russell A, 1950- |
| Advisor | Hoyos Ayala, Héctor |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Jessie Byron Ferguson. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Comparative Literature. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2014. |
| Location | electronic resource |
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- Copyright
- © 2014 by Jessica Byron Ferguson
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