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The biographical imagination in Moritz's Anton Reiser : a chronotopic reading

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06/2015
Author
Cusack, Andrew Thomas
Keywords
Chronotype
Biography
Time and space
Imagination
Moritz's Anton Reiser
Psychological novel
P Language and Literature
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Abstract
Moritz's fictionalized autobiography Anton Reiser is a psychological novel primarily concerned with the significance of the imagination in personal development, pedagogy and identity formation. By clarifying the influence of the experience of time and space on the imagination, Moritz's analysis of the imagination makes a significant contribution to empirical psychology. Bakthin's theory of the chronotope is applied in this reading in order to show that the realism of the novel consists in its evocation of the protagonist's experience of his own situatedness, and to illuminate the architectonics of the novel, those processes by which it is constituted as an aesthetically formed whole. The reading demonstrates the full implications of Moritz's decision to make the novel – an aesthetic form – the vehicle for a pursuit of psychological insight in which the reader's imagination is enlisted in the process of enlightenment.
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Cusack , A T 2015 , ' The biographical imagination in Moritz's Anton Reiser : a chronotopic reading ' , ORBIS Litterarum , vol. 70 , no. 3 , pp. 234-262 . https://doi.org/10.1111/oli.12069
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ORBIS Litterarum
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Peer reviewed
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https://doi.org/10.1111/oli.12069
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0105-7510
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Journal article
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© 2015 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is the accepted version of the following article: Cusack, A. (2015), The Biographical Imagination in Moritz's Anton Reiser. Orbis Litterarum, 70: 234–262, which has been published in final form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/oli.12069/abstract
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/8602

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