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The Art of Being: Poetics of the Novel and Existentialists Philosophy Poetics of the Novel and Existentialists Philosophy by Ong, Yi-Ping is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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The Art of Being: Poetics of the Novel and Existential Philosophy offers an account of the poetics of the realist novel, based on how the novel reorients philosophy in the nineteenth and twentieth century. Philosophers such as Kierkegaard, Sartre, and Beauvoir not only read novels and use novelistic techniques of representation in their work, but also discover a radically new way of thinking about the relation between the form of the novel and the nature of self-knowledge, freedom, and world. Drawing upon a rich archive of existentialists writing on the novel, Ong argues that for these thinkers the poetics of the novel in its classic phase - the nineteenth- and twentieth-century realist novel - discloses the conditions for thinking about the meaning of existence. Bringing together philosophy, novel theory, and intellectual history with groundbreaking readings of the novels of Tolstoy, Eliot, Austen, James, Flaubert, and Zola, this study reveals how the novel engages with philosophically rich notions of freedom, world, and the unfinished character of human life in its very form.-- Provided by publisher
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Ong, Yi-Ping
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780674983656
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Literary Fiction, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.5 / 5 (3 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14