THE ANXIETY OF LACK: RE-READING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALISM AND SENSATIONALISM
Allan explores the relationship between realism and sensationalism in a way which suggests that the latter forms a Derndean supplement to the former Arguing that the sensation novel ‘is the first literary genre to foreground the scene and space of writing which is opened at the moment of God's...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
1999
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Literature and theology
Year: 1999, Volume: 13, Issue: 3, Pages: 187-200 |
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| Summary: | Allan explores the relationship between realism and sensationalism in a way which suggests that the latter forms a Derndean supplement to the former Arguing that the sensation novel ‘is the first literary genre to foreground the scene and space of writing which is opened at the moment of God's death’, she proceeds to show that not only do the two literary forms represent divergent responses to the death of God as a transcendental signified, but that the critical resistance to sensationalism among realist writers represents a kind of anxiety about realism's internal deficiencies. The reaction of realist writers to sensationalism, Allan argues, ‘is identical to the way in which writing has been treated throughout the history of Western metaphysics’. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/13.3.187 |