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In this study, Benjamin McRae Amoss, Jr., examines the role of time in various works by Stendhal, demonstrating how the French writer's concern with temporality is reflected in his construction of narrative. Applying and expanding the theories proposed by Paul Ricoeur in Temps et recit, Amoss investigates Stendhal's use of narrative or quasi-narrative devices as a means of coming to terms with the perplexities of time and the human perception of it....

Essays to help you understand and appreciate the works of Dickens.

Melville has long been regarded as an author of raw genius who knew, or cared, little about the art of the novel, and even harbored hostility toward its conventions. In The Weaver-God, He Weaves, Christopher Sten sets out to correct this widespread view, showing not only what Melville knew about the novelist's craft but how he appropriated and transformed a whole series of distinct genres: Typee is presented in the context of the popular romance,...

Antebellum culture celebrated the home as the site of nurture, affection, and equality; indeed, the middle-class home became the model of American institutions and values. Narratives from the American Renaissance, however, reveal that this was a conflicted, strained ideal. Stories from the culture represent intense social, political, and literary rivalry. Thus, writers such as Cooper, Douglass, Stowe, Melville, and Southworth projected competing visions...

"We acknowledge and celebrate Jane Austen as the mother of the English realist novel, but have you ever wondered why she insists on giving her mature heroines the 'perfect happiness' that can only be realised in the Romance? Romancing Jane Austen asks the reader to consider Austen's happy endings as a 'prophetic' rather than a merely 'illusory' answer to the contradiction that feminine subjectivity represents for history. Austen is still the most...