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Goethe's Heirs@@@The Way of the World: The Bildungsroman in European Culture
Edna L. Steeves,Franco Moretti +1 more
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This article is published in Novel: A Forum on Fiction.The article was published on 1989-01-21. It has received 529 citations till now.read more
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Eavesdropping in the Novel from Austen to Proust
TL;DR: Eavesdropping in the Novel from Austen to Proust as discussed by the authors investigates human curiosity and its representation in eavesdropping scenes in nineteenth-century English and French novels and argues that eavesdropping dramatizes a primal human urge to know and offers a paradigm of narrative transmission and reception of information among characters, narrators and readers.
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