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Beschreibung
Reading Words into Worlds asks: how can reading a novel make us feel as if we are living in a world? The book argues that novels can give themselves to a reader in ways that mimetically resemble the givenness of beings in extra-textual reality. This theory is then grounded in close readings of four British realist novels.
Reading Words into Worlds asks: how can reading a novel make us feel as if we are living in a world? The book argues that novels can give themselves to a reader in ways that mimetically resemble the givenness of beings in extra-textual reality. This theory is then grounded in close readings of four British realist novels.
Über den Autor

J. Clayton McReynolds received his Ph.D. in English Literature from Baylor University. He currently teaches literature, history, speech, and writing at Arma Dei Academy. His research interests include the phenomenology of reading, realism, and the rise of the novel, and his work has been published in Dickens Studies Annual and The Journal of Inklings Studies.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLE

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER ONE: The Ontological Origin of the Novel

CHAPTER TWO: The Visible Hand of Daniel Defoe: The Phenomenological Mimesis of God-Givenness in Robinson Crusoe

CHAPTER THREE: Reading Austen's Reality: The Phenomenological Mimesis of Authorial-Givenness in Northanger Abbey

CHAPTER FOUR: Being-As Bulstrode: The Phenomenological Mimesis of Self-Givenness in Middlemarch

CHAPTER FIVE: Hardy's Anthropomorphous Forces: The Phenomenological Mimesis of Cruel Givenness in Jude the Obscure

CONCLUSION: The Fruits of Phenomenological Mimesis

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Genre: Importe, Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781032635439
ISBN-10: 1032635436
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: McReynolds, J. Clayton
Hersteller: Routledge
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 11 mm
Von/Mit: J. Clayton McReynolds
Erscheinungsdatum: 26.12.2025
Gewicht: 0,307 kg
Artikel-ID: 134419315