Download or read book Studies in the Narrative Method of Defoe written by Arthur Wellesley Secord and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Defoe s Narrative Technique in Robinson Crusoe written by Carolin Damm and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2005-02-23 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, RWTH Aachen University, language: English, abstract: With the publication of Robinson Crusoe in 1719 the novel became established as a significant literary genre. In this connection Daniel Defoe set new standards for a long period. With his The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe he laid the foundations of the contemporary Robinsonade. “With its common hero, pseudo-authentic style, and focus on ideological problems of materialism and individualism, it has been widely seen as the first modern realist novel” 1, the critic David Fausett writes. But in the history of interpretation there are dissensions about Defoe’s role in the development of the novel. His style although it revolutionised the English novel, first was a topic for extensive discussions. From Maximillian E. Novak we get to know that “many of Defoe`s critics have regarded his fiction as a kind of accident arising from his desperate need to support his family and to keep off his creditors.“2 In the Rise of the Novel Ian Watt goes so far as to say that Defoe “is perhaps a unique example of a great writer who was very little interested in literature, and says nothing of interest about it as literature.“3 In contrast Hammond underlines the novel’s “lasting significance” that “surely lies in its consummate blending of divergent literary traditions and its fruitfulness as a source of myth.“4 Furthermore he concludes that “a story that has achieved the status of a fable must possess considerably literary and imaginative qualities and respond to some deep need in the human psyche.“5 Because there must be something in Defoe’s style and narrative technique that justifies the novel’s position in literature some critics have already tried to find an explanation for Defoe’s role in the rise of the novel. [...] 1 Fausett, David. 1994. The Strange Surprizing Sources of ’Robinson Crusoe’. Amsterdam: Rodopi, p. 25. 2 Novak, Maximillian E. “Defoe`s Theory of Fiction.“ In: Heidenreich, Regina und Helmut, eds. 1982. Daniel Defoe: Schriften zum Erzählwerk. (Wege der Forschung. Vol. 339). Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, p. 182. 3 Watt, Ian. 1957. The Rise of the Novel. Berkeley, p. 70. 4 Hammond, John R. 1993. A Defoe Companion. MD: Barnes & Noble, p. 67. 5 ibid., p. 67.
Download or read book Studies in the Narrative Method of Defoe written by Arthur Wellesley Secord and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Defoe s Sources and Narrative Method written by Manuel Robert Schonhorn and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Studies in the Narrative Method of Defoe written by Arthur Wellesley Secord and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Defoe and Fictional Time written by Paul K. Alkon and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defoe and Fictional Time shows Defoe's relevance to issues now central to criticism of the novel; relationships between narrative time and clock time, the influence of time concepts shared by writers and their audience, and above all the questions of how fiction shapes the phenomenal time of reading. Paul K. Alkon offers first a study of time in Defoe's fiction, with glances at Richardson, Fielding, and Sterne; and second a theoretical discussion of time in fiction. Arguing that eighteenth-century views of history account for the strange chronologies in Captain Singleton, Colonel Jack, Moll Flanders, and Roxana, Alkon explores Defoe's innovative use of narrative sequences, frequency, spatial form, chronology, settings, tempo, and the reader's cumulative memories of a text. Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year is the first portrayal of a public duration—passing time shared by an entire population during a crisis—ranking Defoe among the most creative writers who have explored the way in which fictional time may influence reading time.
Download or read book Studies in the Narrative Method of Defoe written by Arthur W. Secord and published by . This book was released on 1987-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Defoe s Narrative Method written by John Francis Tinkler and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Studies in the Narrative Method of Defoe written by Henry Clinton Hutchins and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Robinson Crusoe Readalong written by Daniel Defoe and published by Ags Pub. This book was released on 1994-08 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Studies in the Narrative Method of Defoe Urbana Ill The University of Illinois c1924 written by Arthur Wellesley Secord and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-07-07 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. This first edition credited the work's fictional protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue of true incidents. It was published under the considerably longer original title The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is a fictional autobiography of the title character (whose birth name is Robinson Kreutznaer)—a castaway who spends years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being rescued.The story is widely perceived to have been influenced by the life of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who lived for four years on the Pacific island called "Más a Tierra" (in 1966 its name was changed to Robinson Crusoe Island), Chile. However, other possible sources have been put forward for the text. It is possible, for example, that Defoe was inspired by the Latin or English translations of Ibn Tufail's Hayy ibn Yaqdhan, an earlier novel also set on a desert island. Another source for Defoe's novel may have been Robert Knox's account of his abduction by the King of Ceylon in 1659 in "An Historical Account of the Island Ceylon," Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons (Publishers to the University), 1911. In his 2003 book In Search of Robinson Crusoe, Tim Severin contends that the account of Henry Pitman in a short book chronicling his escape from a Caribbean penal colony and subsequent shipwrecking and desert island misadventures, is the inspiration for the story. Arthur Wellesley Secord in his Studies in the narrative method of Defoe (1963: 21–111) painstakingly analyses the composition of Robinson Crusoe and gives a list of possible sources of the story, rejecting the common theory that the story of Selkirk is Defoe's only source.Despite its simple narrative style, Robinson Crusoe was well received in the literary world and is often credited as marking the beginning of realistic fiction as a literary genre. Before the end of 1719 the book had already run through four editions, and it has gone on to become one of the most widely published books in history, spawning numerous sequels and adaptations for stage, film, and television.
Download or read book Defoe s Sources for Robert Drury s Journal written by John Robert Moore and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1943 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Daniel Defoe s Many Voices written by Eustace Anthony James and published by Amsterdam, [Keizersgracht 302-304] : Rodopi. This book was released on 1972 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Historical Sources of Defoe s Journal of the Plague Year written by Watson Nicholson and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-08 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of this most interesting treatise on Defoe's famous narrative has compiled with evident labor and research a great mass of corroborative material to prove the truth of the story told by Defoe, and he has certainly succeeded in his effort. All Defoe's most improbable statements, statistics, recitals of terrible sights to be seen in the streets or of the horrible misfortunes befalling individuals or families are found to be actual reproductions of facts which can be verified by official statements or by historic documents. Even the story of Solomon Eagle, the Quaker, who ran naked in the streets raving, Dr. Nicholson thinks he has duplicated by the narrative of the performances of other eccentric Quakers. He admits that the narrative of the three men who escaped from the city and wandered about the country, has a fictitious ring. Dr. Nicholson's main contention is that "Defoe's Journal" should be classed as history, not fiction, and he mentions in a somewhat grieved manner that in libraries, or in such series as Everyman's Library, it is put under the head of fiction. He excuses Defoe's use of the first person singular in the narrative as merely a pardonable ruse to make his book more generally popular and unlike a dry-as-dust history. We must confess that though we feel that Dr. Nicholson has done a service to the book in establishing the essential accuracy of its details, our conviction is that any book which claims to be a narration of facts written by one who participated in them, must be classed as fiction, if the author did not actually see what he relates or was not an actor in them. Thackeray's "Henry Esmond" is as accurate historically as the "Journal" which Defoe claims was written by a sadler of London, yet no one would think of classing it under any other class than fiction. It is true that the "Journal" is not a novel because it contains no plot, but just as it is not strictly speaking a novel, neither can it be classed otherwise than as a fictitious narrative, having been written by a fictitious person. Dr. Nicholson's work is a valuable contribution to the literature of the plague, as well as to the bibliography of Defoe. The "Journal" was written at a time when the people of London were apprehensive of another plague visitation; the plague was raging at Marseilles, from whence its entry into London was feared. Defoe, with true journalistic instinct, promptly wrote a timely book. The recent influenza epidemic has brought to the minds of many people a realistic conception of what such visitations involve. It is to be hoped that Dr. Nicholson's book will revive interest in one of the most famous of the English classics, and that the lessons that Defoe tried to teach his generation will be of some benefit to ours. -"Annals of Medical History," Volume 3 [1921]
Download or read book The Historical Sources of Defoe s Journal of the Plague Year written by Watson Nicholson and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
