Surprise
The Poetics of the Unexpected from Milton to Austen
Today, in the era of the spoiler alert, surprise in fiction is primarily associated with an unexpected plot twist, but in earlier usage, the word had darker and more complex meanings. Originally denoting a military ambush or physical assault, surprise went through a major semantic shift in the eighteenth century: from violent attack to pleasurable experience, and from external event to internal feeling. In Surprise, Christopher R. Miller studies that change as it took shape in literature ranging from Paradise Lost through the novels of Jane Austen. Miller argues that writers of the period exploited and arbitrated the dual nature of surprise i…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8014-5577-3
- EAN: 9780801455773
- Produktnummer: 23653476
- Verlag: Cornell University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 280 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 507 KB
- Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.
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Christopher R. Miller
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