Towards the ethics of form in fiction: narratives of cultural remission

(print) 240 p. ; 24 cm.Carnival and crisis in three stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Oppositionality in Fielding's Tom Jones -- Carnival diminished : the secret springs of Tristram Shandy -- Non-carnivalesque oppositionality : Jane Austen and the golden mean -- Checks and balances : Charles Dickens's A tale of two cities -- Across the boundaries of the self : George Eliot's Daniel Deronda -- Carnival reversals : Thomas Hardy's The mayor of Casterbridge -- Morphology of crisis : non-contact measurement of self in Conrad's "The secret sharer" -- Carnivalization : throwaways in Joyce's Ulysses -- Discourse of Lent : Kafka's "A hunger artist" and Shalamov's "The artist of the spade".Item embargoed for five year