2007-08 BM1: Session 6 - Revision history

Anton Kirchhofer at 07:52, 4 December 2007

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	*[[The Novel in the Nineteenth Century - The Order of Fictions\|Presentation]]		*[[The Novel in the Nineteenth Century - The Order of Fictions\|Presentation]]

Anton Kirchhofer at 14:32, 26 November 2007

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			*[[The Novel in the Nineteenth Century - The Order of Fictions\|Presentation]]


	==Received Notions about nineteenth-century fiction:==		==Received Notions about nineteenth-century fiction:==

Anton Kirchhofer: /* Questions and second thoughts */

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Questions and second thoughts

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	==Questions and second thoughts==		==Questions and second thoughts==
	*are ~~realistic~~ novels "realistic"?		*are realist novels "realistic"?
	*how do the first two characteristics go together: the popular and commercial character of fiction and the art quality?		*how do the first two characteristics go together: the popular and commercial character of fiction and the art quality?
	*what drives the production of subgenres: aesthetic progress, new fashions?		*what drives the production of subgenres: aesthetic progress, new fashions?

Anton Kirchhofer at 13:56, 16 October 2007

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	==Received Notions about nineteenth-century fiction:==		==Received Notions about nineteenth-century fiction:==

Anton Kirchhofer at 13:55, 16 October 2007

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	*Look for signals of fictionality...		*Look for signals of fictionality...

			Question/Reflection: In this new order of fictions, what is the relation between fiction and scandal?

Anton Kirchhofer at 13:54, 16 October 2007

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	~~Sitzung 6~~		==Received Notions about nineteenth-century fiction:==

			*The novel as the privileged art form of bourgeois self-reflection (The triumph of Realism)
			*The novel as the privileged medium of popular entertainment (popular fiction, circulating libraries)
			*The differentiation into subgenres

			==Questions and second thoughts==
			*are realistic novels "realistic"?
			*how do the first two characteristics go together: the popular and commercial character of fiction and the art quality?
			*what drives the production of subgenres: aesthetic progress, new fashions?

			==A concerted view of the development of fiction in the 19th century. — "The order of fictions"==

			In the course of the eighteenth century, the problematic overlappings between fiction and the real world have been severely cut down.

			At least from around 1780 onwards, there is an "order of fictions" which circumscribes the place of fiction in public discourse and regulates the conditions of its development and circulation.

			#all fictions now have obvious signs, by which they are recognized as fiction (narrative techniques, "unrealistically" comprehensive knowledge of narrators [omniscience], Intertextual references to the literary tradition, connections to topics of public debate, ...)
			#all fictions are produced for and circulate on a market which is structured by internal criteria: -- a scale: popular vs. high art -- types: subgenres with typical features...
			#beyond this market, there is the undiscussable production of "penny dreadfuls" ...

			Example: ''Middlemarch'' (construction of the narrative voice; non-imitative; marketing choices; sensational aspects, condition of England, the positivist philosophy...)

			==What to do with 19th century novels==

			*Look for signals of fictionality...

Olaf Simons at 13:10, 16 October 2007

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	~~==Argument 5: The "Rise of the Novel" has been twice re-written over the past 100 years==~~

	*'''The rise of the novel''' was originally - from the 16th into the 18th century - understood as the rise of realistic shorter stories (today called "novellas") defeating the rivaling romances
	~~:*'''Novels''' - such as Cervantes' ''Novelas exemplares'' (1613) - were supposed to~~
	~~::*teach through '''good and bad examples''' of what men and women did in peculiar ("novel", i.e. new) situations~~
	~~::*entertain with their rapidly evolving plots of '''intrigues''' (i.e. secret plans),~~
	~~::*be written in '''plain and modern language''',~~
	~~::*end in a '''point''' - a surprising turn of the events which the story teller could be expected to use for a more or less serious moral conclusion~~
	~~:*'''Romances''' - such as the ''Amadis'' which had driven Cervantes' ''Don Quixote'' into a comical heroism - were supposed to~~
	~~::*be '''long epic works'''~~
	~~::*delight with a language full of '''lofty expressions''',~~
	~~::*be constructed as in successions of '''adventures''',~~
	~~::*celebrate the deeds of '''great heroes''',~~
	~~::*inspire an '''emulation''' of the hero's spirit.~~
	*The "rise of the novel" as defined in 1957 by '''Ian Watt''' in his book of the same title
	~~:*turned '''French fictional works of the 17th century''' into original production of '''"romances"''',~~
	~~:*claimed the new romances written by '''Defoe and his followers''' to be the first '''real "modern novels"'''.~~
	*Research of the last two decades has detected a production of "novels" written before Defoe. Authors from Aphra Behn to Eliza Haywood have become '''"mothers of the English novel"''' in this development.

Olaf Simons at 16:43, 3 September 2007

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	==Argument 5: The "Rise of the Novel" has been twice re-written over the ~~last~~ 100 years==		==Argument 5: The "Rise of the Novel" has been twice re-written over the past 100 years==

	*'''The rise of the novel''' was originally - from the 16th into the 18th century - understood as the rise of realistic shorter stories (today called "novellas") defeating the rivaling romances		*'''The rise of the novel''' was originally - from the 16th into the 18th century - understood as the rise of realistic shorter stories (today called "novellas") defeating the rivaling romances

Olaf Simons at 16:26, 3 September 2007

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	==Argument 5: The "Rise of the Novel" has been twice re-~~interpreted during~~ the last ~~200~~ years==		==Argument 5: The "Rise of the Novel" has been twice re-written over the last 100 years==

	*'''The rise of the novel''' was originally - from the 16th into the 18th century - understood as the rise of realistic shorter stories (today called "novellas") defeating the rivaling romances		*'''The rise of the novel''' was originally - from the 16th into the 18th century - understood as the rise of realistic shorter stories (today called "novellas") defeating the rivaling romances

Olaf Simons at 16:20, 3 September 2007

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			==Argument 5: The "Rise of the Novel" has been twice re-interpreted during the last 200 years==

	*'''The rise of the novel''' was originally - from the 16th into the 18th century - understood as the rise of realistic shorter stories (today called "novellas") defeating the rivaling romances		*'''The rise of the novel''' was originally - from the 16th into the 18th century - understood as the rise of realistic shorter stories (today called "novellas") defeating the rivaling romances