Daniel Defoe, Contrarian - Hardcover

Robert James Merrett

 
9781442646100: Daniel Defoe, Contrarian
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1442646101 ISBN 13: 9781442646100
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 2013

Synopsis

A highly conscious wordsmith, Daniel Defoe used expository styles in his fiction and non-fiction that reflected his ability to perceive material and intellectual phenomena from opposing, but not contradictory perspectives. Moreover, the boundaries of genre within his wide-ranging oeuvre can prove highly fluid. In this study, Robert James Merrett approaches Defoe's body of work using interdisciplinary methods that recognize dialectic in his verbal creativity and cognitive awareness.Examining more than ninety of Defoe's works, Merrett contends that this author's literariness exploits a conscious dialogue that fosters the reciprocity of traditional and progressive authorial procedures. Along the way, he discusses Defoe's lexical and semantic sensibility, his rhetorical and aesthetic theories, his contrarian theology, and more. Merrett proposes that Defoe's contrarian outlook celebrates a view of consciousness that acknowledges the brain's bipartite structure, and in so doing illustrates how cognitive science may be applied to further explorations of narrative art.

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About the Author

Robert James Merrett is a professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta.

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Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1442646101
ISBN 13 
9781442646100
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
3
Number of pages
416