... analogies to distinctive features of the novel form, analogies which draw attention to the characteristic kind of correspondence between life and literature which has obtained in prose fiction since the novels of Defoe and Richardson. The greatness of Descartes was primarily one of method, of the thoroughness of his determination to accept nothing on trust whereby the pursuit of truth is ... world of everyday life into the non-rational or grotesque world outside time and place and with a logic of its own. A significant feature of Victorian novel, and particularly of Dickens novels, is t...

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Vladimir Nabokov´s Pale Fire, first published in 1989 is considered to be one of the first Post-modern novels in the English speaking world, primarily because of its narrative structure; the novel is written as a poem with 999-lines by the fictitious writer John Shade. Shade´s next-door neighbor, ... ...

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