Novelistic Love In The Platonic Tradition - Fielding, Faulkner, And The Postmodernists DSC Prize for South Asian Literature (2015) Shifting the Rules of Competition

Shifting the Rules of Competition

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Novelistic Love In The Platonic Tradition - Fielding, Faulkner, And The Postmodernists DSC Prize for South Asian Literature (2015) Shifting the Rules of CompetitionThe 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