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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... remains inescapable . It may well be true that no “ objective " account of the past is possible , but that is because human understanding is subjective and symbolic , not because the past never happened . And I would add that the ideal ...
... remains inescapable . It may well be true that no “ objective " account of the past is possible , but that is because human understanding is subjective and symbolic , not because the past never happened . And I would add that the ideal ...
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... remains an anonymous appurtenance in " this gross practice " of which Boswell admits to having a low opinion . What he wants to avoid , of course , is having a low opinion of himself , no Captain Macheath now but a man of brutality ...
... remains an anonymous appurtenance in " this gross practice " of which Boswell admits to having a low opinion . What he wants to avoid , of course , is having a low opinion of himself , no Captain Macheath now but a man of brutality ...
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... remains an essential respect in which Gibbon does resist the appeal of the fictive : he avoids any trace of the novelistic , even as much of it as appears in Tacitus . If in Bakhtin's terms the novel inter- weaves layers of discourse in ...
... remains an essential respect in which Gibbon does resist the appeal of the fictive : he avoids any trace of the novelistic , even as much of it as appears in Tacitus . If in Bakhtin's terms the novel inter- weaves layers of discourse in ...
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Texts and Their Realities | 3 |
Fictions of Self and World | 16 |
Life as Art | 66 |
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