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Reading Words into Worlds: Phenomenological Mimesis of Givenness in the Novel de J. Clayton McReynolds

Reading Words into Worlds: Phenomenological Mimesis of Givenness in the Novel: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

Autor J. Clayton McReynolds
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 19 iul 2024
Reading Words into Worlds asks how it is that reading a novel can feel in some ways like being-in-a-world. The book explores how novels give themselves to readers in ways that mimetically resemble our phenomenological reception of given beings in reality. McReynolds refers to this process as phenomenological mimesis of givenness, and he draws on the phenomenological philosophy of Husserl, Heidegger, and Jean-Luc Marion to explore how masterful novels can make reading ink marks on a page feel like seeing things, feeling things, and meeting (even loving) others. McReynolds blends rigorous phenomenological study with a personable style, first laying out his theory in detail and then applying that theory through close studies of his reading experiences of four British realist masterpieces: Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, Austen’s Northanger Abbey, Eliot’s Middlemarch, and Hardy’s Jude the Obscure. Ultimately, this book offers a grounded phenomenology of novel-reading, illuminating what gives novels such power to not only thrill readers—but to change them.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781032635422
ISBN-10: 1032635428
Pagini: 206
Ilustrații: 4
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate

Notă biografică

J. Clayton McReynolds received his Ph.D. in English Literature from Baylor University. He currently teaches literature, history, speech, and writing at Arma Dei Academy. His research interests include the phenomenology of reading, realism, and the rise of the novel, and his work has been published in Dickens Studies Annual and The Journal of Inklings Studies.

Cuprins

LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLE         
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS           
INTRODUCTION           
CHAPTER ONE: The Ontological Origin of the Novel
CHAPTER TWO: The Visible Hand of Daniel Defoe: The Phenomenological Mimesis of God-Givenness in Robinson Crusoe   
CHAPTER THREE: Reading Austen's Reality: The Phenomenological Mimesis of Authorial-Givenness in Northanger Abbey
CHAPTER FOUR: Being-As Bulstrode: The Phenomenological Mimesis of Self-Givenness in Middlemarch
CHAPTER FIVE: Hardy’s Anthropomorphous Forces: The Phenomenological Mimesis of Cruel Givenness in Jude the Obscure 
CONCLUSION: The Fruits of Phenomenological Mimesis        
BIBLIOGRAPHY             
Index

Recenzii

McReynolds sets out to describe what it is like to feel alive in the world of a novel. He accomplishes this by also making us feel alive in his book; so lively and intimate is his authorial voice, one feels as though he is speaking directly to you. With lucid explanation, he tackles the dense narrative concepts of phenomenology and mimesis, not to mention realism itself. Indeed, McReynolds’ conception of phenomenological realism belongs alongside such fundamental theories as Ian Watt’s formal realism. But his explanatory power does not diminish the magic of novels by mighty giants like Defoe, Austen, Hardy, and Eliot. Rather, this book will leave readers with a renewed sense of wonder at the novel’s power to draw us in to a world, and our own desire to go.
 -Dr. Kristen Pond, Associate Professor, Baylor University, USA
Reading Words Into Worlds is vitally important for any student of the novel. Dr. McReynolds’ work is grounded in phenomenological research, bringing foundational figures such as Heidegger and Ricoeur to bear in explaining what a novel is and how it works. He writes with a no-nonsense lucidity that is rare in recent literary criticism. His theory of “phenomenological mimesis” is not only one of the most cogent explanations of how we read novels, but it also has suggestive implications for making sense of reality itself.
-Dr. Cory Grewell, Professor of Literature, Patrick Henry College, USA

Descriere

Reading Words into Worlds asks: how can reading a novel make us feel as if we are living in a world? The book argues that novels can give themselves to a reader in ways that mimetically resemble the givenness of beings in extra-textual reality. This theory is then grounded in close readings of four British realist novels.