Towards a poetics of nostalgia: the nostalgic experience in modern fiction
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Stevenson, Randall
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Marcus, Laura
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Spinks, Lee
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Salmose, Niklas
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2013-09-10T11:27:08Z
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2013-09-10T11:27:08Z
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2012-06-28
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In recent years there has been a body of studies relating nostalgia and fiction
in political, sociological, feminist, or historical ways. This thesis, instead, sets
out to perform an unusual textual study of nostalgia in modern fiction in
order to work towards a poetics of nostalgia. Although the experience of
emotion is private, the object of analytical discourse must be to approach this
experience with objective tools. The thesis therefore develops a method for
analyzing the experience of nostalgia in literary texts and then uses this
method to study how nostalgia can be evoked in readers. The method works
through close textual readings, developed through reader-response and
narratological theories and validated through a thorough investigation of
modern nostalgia in general. The result is a taxonomy of nostalgic strategies
that possibly create nostalgic reactions in readers.
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http://hdl.handle.net/1842/7728
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The University of Edinburgh
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nostalgia
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narratology
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modernism
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style
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reader-response
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emotions
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Towards a poetics of nostalgia: the nostalgic experience in modern fiction
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Thesis or Dissertation
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Doctoral
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PhD Doctor of Philosophy
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