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Tag: narration

247. (Stendhal)

  Stendhal is exhausting and bracing because his energy is relentless and directed relentlessly to one end: the refusal of … More

French literature, narration, Realism, Stendhal, the novel

244. (Stendhal)

Stendhal’s narration is a perpetual mystery of European literature; it goes hand in hand with his characterization (as narration usually … More

narration, narrative, Stendhal, the novel

115. (Italo Svevo)

Italo Svevo, whose talent was recognized and whose career was partially rescued by Joyce, is not much read nowadays. Joyce’s … More

Irony, Italo Svevo, James Joyce, Modernism, narration, narrative, Realism, the bourgeois, the novel

80. (James Joyce)

A third and final try at the puzzle of variations of style in Ulysses, starting once more with the stopped … More

Joyce, narration, Novel, Realism, time

79. (James Joyce)

Once, in a graduate seminar on Chaucer, flailing and frustrated with the chatter, I blurted out to the professor, most … More

Chaucer, James Joyce, narration, Ulysses

78. (James Joyce)

Pastiche, farce, and imitation flood Ulysses at 4:30 p.m, around the time Blazes sleeps with Molly Bloom, and at the time … More

farce, imitation, James Joyce, narration, pastiche, the novel
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