Defoe and Fictional Time
Title | Defoe and Fictional Time PDF eBook |
Author | Paul K. Alkon |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2010-08-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0820337714 |
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.
Robinson Crusoe Readalong
Title | Robinson Crusoe Readalong PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Defoe |
Publisher | Ags Pub |
Pages | 64 |
Release | 1994-08 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780785407706 |
The Life & Strange Surprising Adventures of Daniel Defoe
Title | The Life & Strange Surprising Adventures of Daniel Defoe PDF eBook |
Author | Richard West |
Publisher | |
Pages | 472 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN |
Daniel Defoe's life was packed with incident and drama. Born in the year of the Restoration of the Monarchy after the English Civil War, he remained a nonconformist throughout his life, actively rebelled against James II, travelled the country as a spy for King William and Queen Mary, worked in Scotland on active behalf of the historic Union of Scotland and England, helped launch the South Sea Company, was bankrupted frequently as a businessman, was imprisoned for libel and debt, and died a pauper.
The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Title | The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Defoe |
Publisher | |
Pages | 524 |
Release | 1862 |
Genre | Castaways |
ISBN |
A violent storm at sea destroys Robinson Crusoe's ship. He alone survives and is cast ashore on a deserted island. Crusoe must summon all his strength and intelligence to survive and flourish against impossible odds. This is an amazing tale of a young man who overcomes loneliness, tames wild animals, battles ferocious cannibals and dangerous mutineers in a twenty-four year struggle to stay alive!
Defoe's Major Fiction
Title | Defoe's Major Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth R. Napier |
Publisher | |
Pages | 157 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781611496154 |
This book argues that recent materialist approaches to Defoe are insufficiently attentive to the dominant preoccupations of his fictional oeuvre, which center on moral accountability and self-definition, and addresses Defoe's characters, narration, aesthetic, and ethical experiments that constitute his innovative achievements in the novel form.
The Historical Sources of Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year
Title | The Historical Sources of Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year PDF eBook |
Author | Watson Nicholson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 1919 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Defoe’s Major Fiction
Title | Defoe’s Major Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth R. Napier |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 191 |
Release | 2016-01-28 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1611496144 |
This book focuses on the pervasive concern with narrativity and self-construction that marks Defoe’s first-person fictional narratives. Defoe’s fictions focus obsessively and elaborately on the act of storytelling—not only in his creation of idiosyncratic voices preoccupied with the telling (and often the concealing) of their own life stories but also in his narrators’ repeated adversion to other, untold stories that compete for attention with their own. Defoe’s narratives raise profound questions about selfhood and agency (as well as demonstrate competing attitudes about narration) in his fictive worlds. His canon exhibits a broad range of first-person fictional accounts, from pseudo-memoir (A Journal of the Plague Year, Memoirs of a Cavalier) to criminal autobiography (Moll Flanders) to confession (Roxana), and the narrators of these accounts (secretive, compulsive, fractive) exhibit an array of resistances to the telling of their life stories. Such experiments with narration evince Defoe’s deep involvement in projects of self-description and -delineation, as he interrogates the boundaries of the self and dramatizes the arduousness of self-accounting. Defoe’s fictions are emphatically consciousness-centered and the significance of such a focus to the development of the novel is patently as great as is his “realistic” style. Defoe’s narrative project, in fact, challenges current views on the moment at which inwardness and interiority begin, as Lukács argued, to comprise the subject matter of the novel, implicitly attributing to identity and consciousness a place of signal and complex importance in the new genre.