The Narratology of Observation
Studies in a Technique of European Literary RealismHow does literature evoke reality’ This book takes cues from the history of scientific observation to provide a new approach to this longstanding question of literary studies. It reconstructs a narrative technique of ‘literary’ observation in which reality appears by mimicking processes of visual perception, and it traces the functioning of this technique through a wide range of European fiction from the early 18th to the late 19th centuries. ISBN: 9783110595185, 3110595184
