Fictions of Reality in the Age of Hume and JohnsonUniversity of Wisconsin Press, 1989 - 262 من الصفحات During the second half of the 18th century the most powerful literary work in Britain was nonfictional - philosophy, history, biography, and political controversy, Leo Damrosch argues that this tendency is no accident; at the beginning of the modern age, writers were consciously aware of the role of cultural fictions, and they sought to ground those fictions in a real world beyond the text. Their political conservatism was a considered response to a world in which meaning was inseparable from consensus, and in which consensus was increasingly under attack. |
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... never be able to prove that a particular event has hap- pened ; we may even come to recognize that the very notion of an " event " presupposes a story that has conferred that status upon it , so that " an event is an abstraction from a ...
... never be able to prove that a particular event has hap- pened ; we may even come to recognize that the very notion of an " event " presupposes a story that has conferred that status upon it , so that " an event is an abstraction from a ...
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... never been rehydrated— and ruefully admits the loss : " My Journal cannot have the same freshness and fullness when written now as when written recently after the scenes recorded " ( 346 ) . Moreover , for this final section the ...
... never been rehydrated— and ruefully admits the loss : " My Journal cannot have the same freshness and fullness when written now as when written recently after the scenes recorded " ( 346 ) . Moreover , for this final section the ...
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... never materialized , and he settled down to a clerical life in his native Selborne in Hampshire , a village of seven hundred inhabitants which his most recent biographer describes as " on the road to nowhere " ( Mabey 17 ) . For most of ...
... never materialized , and he settled down to a clerical life in his native Selborne in Hampshire , a village of seven hundred inhabitants which his most recent biographer describes as " on the road to nowhere " ( Mabey 17 ) . For most of ...
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Texts and Their Realities | 3 |
Fictions of Self and World | 16 |
Life as Art | 66 |
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