An inquiry into narrative deception and its uses in Fielding's Tom Jones

著者

    • Smith, J. F. (James F.)

書誌事項

An inquiry into narrative deception and its uses in Fielding's Tom Jones

J.F. Smith

(American university studies, Series IV . English language and literature ; vol. 150)

Peter Lang, c1993

大学図書館所蔵 件 / 4

この図書・雑誌をさがす

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-145) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Using close rhetorical analysis, Smith argues that Fielding's narrative method in Tom Jones creates an ironic tension between the intrusive narrator and the highly artificial plot. Fielding's narrator employs a rhetoric of deception to maintain the central secret of Tom's birth around which his plot is structured. Such an ironic narrative method ultimately reveals the reader's dependence on conventional assumptions in interpretation and argues for epistemological prudence. Smith questions conventional readings of Tom Jones and shows Fielding's comic novel to be both darker and more philosophical than generally assumed.

目次

Contents: Fielding's sophistic narrator - The problem of realism - The selective voice and necessary deception - The deceptive characteriztion of Bridget Allworthy - Conclusion.

「Nielsen BookData」 より

関連文献: 1件中  1-1を表示

詳細情報

ページトップへ