Aspects of the Novel, or E.M. Forster’s (In)formal Criticism
First conceived as a series of lectures, Aspects of the Novel has become a classic critical text while being systematically disparaged as old-fashioned. Undoubtedly, the book may appear dated, trivial and biased, placing the author’s friends next to canonical texts. But one should also pay attention...
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Études britanniques contemporaines
2020
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| Online dostop: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Izvleček: | First conceived as a series of lectures, Aspects of the Novel has become a classic critical text while being systematically disparaged as old-fashioned. Undoubtedly, the book may appear dated, trivial and biased, placing the author’s friends next to canonical texts. But one should also pay attention to Forster’s attempt to grasp the text in terms of tone, pattern, plot and rhythmical effects, an unsystematic interplay between the parts and the whole which involves the reader’s active participation.Michel Serres’s study of the parasite may enlighten Forster’s incongruous use of parasitic metaphors, and his insightful associations between intertextuality and textual parasiting or textual haunting. The final chapters focus on voice, connecting rhythm, tone and stutter as a form of stylistic parasiting in a striking study of Melville. Something runs there which cannot be trapped in words, for Deleuze a process of becoming, for Forster sheer song, attempting to open up the novel, towards lines of flight rather than respectable closure. |
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