Daniel Wright
The Grounds of the Novel
The Grounds of the Novel
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The novel is a genre of immanent ontological critique that imagines its metaphysical grounds through figuration, understanding fictional being as self-sufficient, cohesive, and alive, rather than as beholden to the actual world.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 246 pages
Publication date: 04 January 2024
Publisher: Stanford University Press
In a profound exploration of the latest debates in novel theory, Daniel Wright delves into the ontological status of novels. Philosophers who engage in the debate about the existence of fictional worlds perceive the novel as an ontological challenge that demands resolution. However, Wright unveils the novel as a genre of immanent ontological critique.
Wright contends that novels envision their metaphysical foundations through figuration, conceiving fictional beings as self-sufficient, cohesive, and alive, rather than being reliant on the actual world as an existential anchor. Through meticulously attentive close readings of various novels and reflections on writerly craft by renowned authors such as Thomas Hardy, Olive Schreiner, Colson Whitehead, Virginia Woolf, Zadie Smith, Henry James, and Akwaeke Emezi, Wright offers an impassioned vision of reading as entering into ontologically terraformed worlds, and of literary criticism as traversing and re-treading the novel's grounds.
Dimension: 216 x 140 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781503637559
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