1st Edition
The Solipsism of Modern Fiction Comedy, Tragedy, and Heroism
By Harold Kaplan
Copyright 2011
252 Pages
by
Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
250 Pages
by
Routledge
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In The Solipsism of Modern Fiction, Harold Kaplan deals with the problem of action and its adequate motive in the modern novel. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries modern scientific knowledge abandoned the human-centered view of the universe and thus the fictional modes that had been rooted in religion or myth. The result for fiction was a radical skepticism on the part of the protagonist... Read more
The Passive Voice; The solipsism of modern fiction; Madame Bovary; Stoom; Hemingway and the passive hero; The inert and the violent; Character as reality; The naturalist theology of D. H. Lawrence; The problem of action; The touchstone of tragedy
Biography
Harold Kaplan
