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Modern Minority

Asian American Literature and Everyday Life

By: Yoon Sun Lee

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Modern Minority

Asian American Literature and Everyday Life

By: Yoon Sun Lee

Modern Minority presents a fresh examination of canonical and emergent Asian American literature's relationship to the genre of realism, particularly through its preoccupation with everyday life.

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0199915830

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9780199915835

The Natural Laws of Plot

How Things Happen in Realist Novels

By: Yoon Sun Lee

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The Natural Laws of Plot

How Things Happen in Realist Novels

By: Yoon Sun Lee

Is plot a line, an arc, or a shape? None of these. Rather than thinking of plot as a sequence of events or actions put into place solely through human agency against the backdrop of setting, this book questions why we should distinguish between plot and setting—and indeed, whether we can make such a distinction. After all, plot, Yoon Sun Lee contends, cannot be disentangled from the material setting in which it takes place. In The Natural Laws of Plot, Lee connects the history of the novel and the history of science to show how plot in the realist novel is given shape by the characteristics of the physical world—and how in turn, plot serves as the avenue through which the realist novel participates in the same lines of inquiry about the world as pursued by the natural and physical sciences. Lee argues that the novel emerges and evolves in tandem with the development of scientific practices and concepts in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe to investigate the idea of a unified and objective world. Drawing on readings from Defoe, Austen, Scott, and many others, Lee demonstrates how bodies, human and non-human, behave according to laws that are built into worlds by plot, and how they are subject to causes and consequences that can occur independently of individual action, social forces, or metaphysical destiny. This interest in representing and exploring how things happen sets the novel apart from other literary genres, and makes the history of science integral to the understanding of the history and theory of the novel, and of narrative. Plot, Lee shows us, is immersive and powerful, because it satisfies our wish to know how things happen in a coherent, objective, and possibly real world.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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1512823414

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9781512823417

Nationalism and Irony

Burke, Scott, Carlyle

By: Yoon Sun Lee

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Nationalism and Irony

Burke, Scott, Carlyle

By: Yoon Sun Lee

Nationalism and irony are two of the most significant developments of the Romantic period, yet they have not been linked in depth before now. This study shows how Romantic nationalism in Britain explored irony's potential as a powerful source of civic cohesion. The period's leading conservative voices, self-consciously non-English figures such as Edmund Burke, Walter Scott, and Thomas Carlyle, accentuated rather than disguised the anomalous character of Britain's identity, structure, and history. Their irony publicly fractured while upholding sentimental fictions of national wholeness. Britain's politics of deference, its reverence for tradition, and its celebration of productivity all became not only targets of irony but occasions for its development as a patriotic institution. This study offers a different view of both Romantic irony and Romantic nationalism: irony is examined as an outgrowth of commercial society and as a force that holds together center and periphery, superiors and subordinates, in the culture of nationalism.

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Oxford University Press

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019028997X

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9780190289973

Modern Minority

Asian American Literature and Everyday Life

By: Yoon Sun Lee

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Modern Minority

Asian American Literature and Everyday Life

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Modern Minority presents a fresh examination of canonical and emergent Asian American literature's relationship to the genre of realism, particularly through its preoccupation with everyday life.

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Nationalism and Irony

Burke, Scott, Carlyle

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Burke, Scott, Carlyle

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0198036795

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Modern Minority

Modern Minority

The Natural Laws of Plot

The Natural Laws of Plot

Nationalism and Irony

Nationalism and Irony

Modern Minority

Modern Minority

Nationalism and Irony

Nationalism and Irony

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