The Excellence of Falsehood
Author | : Deborah Ross |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780813132679 |
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Author | : Deborah Ross |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780813132679 |
Author | : Deborah L. Ross |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2014-10-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0813158923 |
"The only excellence of falsehood... is its resemblance to truth," proclaims a clergyman in Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote. He argues that romances are bad art; novels, he implies, are better. This clergyman's remarks -- repeating what literary and moral authorities had been saying since the late seventeenth century -- are central to Deborah Ross's discussion of romance characteristics in English women's novels. Aphra Behn, Delariviere Manley, Eliza Haywood, Charlotte Lennox, Fanny Burney, Ann Radcliffe, and Jane Austen did not take the clergyman's advice to heart. To them, the "falsehood" of romance was by no means self-evident, nor was the superior "excellence" of the novel. In theory, many of them accepted the distinction, but their works combined aspects of the romance and the novel in ways that brought them into conflict with the critical establishment. The texts discussed here illustrate a process of development both in the novel and in the conditions of women's lives. Tensions between romance and realism enabled women writers to question official versions of reality and to measure life against a romance ideal. By altering readers' perceptions and judgments, these authors gradually altered the reality that novels "resemble" and set up new combinations of romance and realism for future writers. This give-and-take between fiction and life is seen most dramatically in the way a "romantic" notion gradually comes to be treated in novels as both "real" and right. Ross follows one such notion -- that women have matrimonial preferences -- to the point where romance and reality merge. Ross's study brings to light an important part of the history of the novel not yet incorporated in theories and histories of the genre.
Author | : Deborah L. Ross |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2021-05-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0813183162 |
"The only excellence of falsehood... is its resemblance to truth," proclaims a clergyman in Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote. He argues that romances are bad art; novels, he implies, are better. This clergyman's remarks—repeating what literary and moral authorities had been saying since the late seventeenth century—are central to Deborah Ross's discussion of romance characteristics in English women's novels. Aphra Behn, Delariviere Manley, Eliza Haywood, Charlotte Lennox, Fanny Burney, Ann Radcliffe, and Jane Austen did not take the clergyman's advice to heart. To them, the "falsehood" of romance was by no means self-evident, nor was the superior "excellence" of the novel. In theory, many of them accepted the distinction, but their works combined aspects of the romance and the novel in ways that brought them into conflict with the critical establishment. The texts discussed here illustrate a process of development both in the novel and in the conditions of women's lives. Tensions between romance and realism enabled women writers to question official versions of reality and to measure life against a romance ideal. By altering readers' perceptions and judgments, these authors gradually altered the reality that novels "resemble" and set up new combinations of romance and realism for future writers. This give-and-take between fiction and life is seen most dramatically in the way a "romantic" notion gradually comes to be treated in novels as both "real" and right. Ross follows one such notion—that women have matrimonial preferences—to the point where romance and reality merge. Ross's study brings to light an important part of the history of the novel not yet incorporated in theories and histories of the genre.
Author | : Jörg Meibauer |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 672 |
Release | : 2018-11-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0191056219 |
This handbook brings together past and current research on all aspects of lying and deception, with chapters contributed by leading international experts in the field. We are confronted daily with cases of lying, deception, bullshitting, and 'fake news', making it imperative to understand how lying works, how it can be defined, and whether it can be detected. A further important issue is whether lying should always be considered a bad thing or if, in some cases, it is simply a useful instrument of human cognition. This volume is the first to offer a comprehensive and up-to-date exploration of these and other issues from the combined perspectives of linguistics, philosophy, and psychology. Chapters offer precise definitions of lying and its subtypes, and outline the range of fields in which lying and deception play a role, from empirical lie detection and the acquisition of lying to its role in fiction, metaphor, and humour. They also describe the tools and approaches that are used by scholars researching lying and deception, such as questionnaire studies, EEG, neuroimaging, and the polygraph. The volume will be an essential reference for students and researchers in a range of fields who are looking to deepen their understanding of all aspects of lying and deception, and will contribute to establishing the vibrant new field of interdisciplinary lying research.
Author | : Thomas Paine |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 630 |
Release | : 1859 |
Genre | : Political science |
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Author | : Thomas Paine |
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Total Pages | : 606 |
Release | : 1878 |
Genre | : Political science |
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Author | : Thomas Paine |
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Total Pages | : 614 |
Release | : 1870 |
Genre | : Rationalism |
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Author | : Charles Carlos Clarke |
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Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1884 |
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Author | : Charles Clarke (Novelist.) |
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Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1876 |
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Total Pages | : 664 |
Release | : 1909 |
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