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The Lyrical Novel: Studies in Herman Hesse, Andre Gide, and Virginia Woolf
By (Author) Ralph Freeman
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
15th February 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: poetry and poets
809.3
Paperback
310
Width 127mm, Height 203mm
28g
The author, in defining the genre of "lyrical fiction," separates a type of .fiction that can be legitimately viewed as "poetry" from other narrative types. The lyrical novelist uses fictional devices to find an aesthetic expression for experience, achieving an effect most frequently seen in dreams, picaresques, and allegories. Analyzing representa