Book Details
The Lyrical Novel : Studies in Herman Hesse, Andre Gide, and Virginia Woolf
ISBN 9780691623818
Pages 310
Year 2015
Edition 1
Publisher PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
Subject LITERATURE & LINGUISTICS
Description
The author, in defining the genre of “lyrical fiction,” separates a type of .fiction that can be legitimately viewed as “poetry” from other narrative types. The lyrical novelist uses fictional devices to find an aesthetic expression for experience, achieving an effect most frequently seen in dreams, picaresques, and allegories. Analyzing representative novels by Hermann Hesse, Andre Gide, and Virginia Woolf, Ralph Freedman focuses on the problem of self-consciousness. His findings are directly applicable to much twentieth-century fiction.
Content
Preface
1.Nature and Forms of The Lyrical Novel
2.The Lyrical Tradition
3.Romantic Imagination: Hermann Hesse As A Lyrical Novelist
The Novel as a Disguised Lyric
The Symbolic Hero
The Allegorical Novel
Portrait of Time
Lyrical Objectives
4. Andre Gide: Lyrical Fiction and the Symbolist Method
Perception and Form: The Novelist in Spite of Himself
The Poet as Percipient
The Mirror of Narrative
The Protestant Confessional
The Inner Landscape
The Poet in Prose
5. Awareness and Fact: The Lyrical Vision Of Virginia Woolf
The Act of Consciousness and the Poet's Vision
Definitions of the Self
Window and Lighthouse
The Omniscient Perspective
Awareness and Form
6. The Lyrical Novel: Retrospect and Prognosis
Index
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