@book {wagner_narratology_2018, title = {The Narratology of Observation, Studies in a Technique of European Literary Realism}, year = {2018}, publisher = {De Gruyter}, organization = {De Gruyter}, address = {Berlin, Boston}, abstract = {How does literature evoke reality? This book takes cues from the history of scientific observation to provide a new approach to this longstanding question of literary studies. It reconstructs a narrative technique of {\textquoteleft}literary{\textquoteright} observation in which reality appears by mimicking processes of visual perception, and it traces the functioning of this technique through a wide range of European fiction from the early 18th to the late 19th centuries.}, keywords = {description and narration, literary realism, literature and knowledge, Observation}, isbn = {978-3-11-059518-5}, url = {https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/502393}, author = {Wagner, Martin} }