Novelistic Love in the Platonic Tradition: Fielding, Faulkner and the Postmodernists
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The love story is an integral part of many novels. What is its narrative status? How does it function, and why? In this original study of Socratic 'love stories,' from Plato through Fielding and Faulkner to the Postmodernists, Jennie Wang proposes a new narrative theory in the study of the novel, which deconstructs the mimesis of 'love stories' and reconstructs their historicity. Wang claims that in the Platonic tradition, the construction of 'love stories' is often a dramatization of the author's historical vision, philosophical speculations, cultural criticism, or political ideology. Novelistic love functions as a literary medium, a power of free speech, that enables the novelist to speak unspeakable truths and include excluded subjects. -- Provided by publisher
Keywords
English fiction -- History and criticism; Love stories -- History and criticism; Platonic love in literature; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Postmodernism (Literature); Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754 Tom Jones; Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 Go down, Moses; Plato -- Influence; English fiction -- Greek influences;
Document Type
Book
ISBN
9780847686230
Publication Date
1997
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
City
Lanham, MD
Department
Department of Languages and Literatures
Object Description
xxi, 215 p. ; 24 cm
Language
en
Recommended Citation
Wang, Jennie, "Novelistic Love in the Platonic Tradition: Fielding, Faulkner and the Postmodernists" (1997). Faculty Book Gallery. 89.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/facbook/89
