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Fiction as Knowledge

Paperback • 1998 • English

Fiction as Knowledge

By John McCormick

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Critics of fiction have long been aware that the romantic movement in Europe and America gave a powerful impulse to the art of fiction. The exact nature of that impulse has resisted analysis like so much associated with romanticism. In Fiction as Knowledge John McCormick reaches for precision, proposing that much of the vitality of modern fiction derives from romantic conceptions of history which made available to fiction not merely historical subject matter, but new perceptions of reality, pre...Show more

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9780765804808

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Transaction Publishers

Published year

1998

Language

English

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Fiction as Knowledge

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