... and the temporality of jazz or, more specifically, between prolepsis and parabasis. My essay looks at Paul de Man's and Georg Lukács's assertions that the novel is an essentially proleptic form and argues that the specific form of prolepsis it brings with it from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is out...

...: Woolf, History, and the Novel 196 rita barnard Fictions of the Global 207 bruce barnhart Prolepsis and Parabasis: Jazz and the Novel 216 nancy bentley Du Bois, Kinlessness, and the Catachrestic...

... may not be watching her, but other “vague ethical being[s]” are: namely, the narrator and the reader. Paranoia becomes parabasis, a breaking of fiction's fourth wall: it is as if what Hardy's protagonists sense is not divine persecution, but rather the controlling contours of novelistic plot...

... and Representation in Victorian Medical Narrative and the Novel . Columbus : Ohio State UP , 2010 . Kornbluh Anna . “ The Economic Problem of Sympathy: Parabasis, Interest, and Realist Form in Middlemarch. ” English Literary History 77 . 4 ( 2010 ): 941 – 67 . Laing Robert . Rev...