Novelistic Love In The Platonic Tradition - Fielding, Faulkner, And The Postmodernists Condition:Good Publication Date: 26 Mar 2013

Publication Date: 26 Mar 2013

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Novelistic Love In The Platonic Tradition - Fielding, Faulkner, And The Postmodernists Condition:Good Publication Date: 26 Mar 2013The love story is an integral part of many novels. What is its narrative status? How does it function, and why? In this original study of Socratic 'love stories,' from Plato through Fielding and Faulkner to the Postmodernists, Jennie Wang proposes a new narrative theory in the study of the novel, which deconstructs the mimesis of 'love stories' and reconstructs their historicity. Wang claims that in the Platonic tradition, the construction of 'love