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TY - JOUR
T1 - George Gissing
T2 - A Story of English Realism
AU - Hutcheon, Rebecca
PY - 2020/3/9
Y1 - 2020/3/9
N2 - George Gissing’s novels sit on the permeable boundary between the diegetic tendencies of 19th-century realism and the mimesis-dominated narratives of modernism. In his early novels, characters deliver barely disguised narratorial comments directly to the reader. But this form of realism is already strained. The self-awareness of Gissing’s art, manifesting in satire and irony, butts up against his research-led approach to writing. This article shows that what emerges in Gissing is a conflict between narrative intrusion, and the desire to displace authority and represent subjectivity at its broadest. This conflict is a synecdoche for proto-modernism.
AB - George Gissing’s novels sit on the permeable boundary between the diegetic tendencies of 19th-century realism and the mimesis-dominated narratives of modernism. In his early novels, characters deliver barely disguised narratorial comments directly to the reader. But this form of realism is already strained. The self-awareness of Gissing’s art, manifesting in satire and irony, butts up against his research-led approach to writing. This article shows that what emerges in Gissing is a conflict between narrative intrusion, and the desire to displace authority and represent subjectivity at its broadest. This conflict is a synecdoche for proto-modernism.
KW - Gissing
KW - Proto-modernism
KW - Mimesis
KW - Artistic Gaze
U2 - 10.30687/EL/2420-823X/2019/01/004
DO - 10.30687/EL/2420-823X/2019/01/004
M3 - Journal article
VL - 6
SP - 69
EP - 82
JO - English Literature
JF - English Literature
SN - 2385-1635
ER -