The Narratology of Observation: Studies in a Technique of European Literary Realism

by Martin Wagner

How does literature evoke reality? This book takes cues from the history of scientific observation to provide a new approach to this longstanding question of literary studies. It reconstructs a narrative technique of 'literary' observation in which reality appears by mimicking processes of visual perception, and it traces the functioning of this technique through a wide range of European fiction from the early 18th to the late 19th centuries.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110595184
• ISBN13: 9783110595185
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary