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Thinking Narratively : Between Novel-Essay and Narrative Essay / edited by Massimo Fusillo, Gianluigi Simonetti and Lorenzo Marchese.
LIBRA PN49 .T45 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Transcodification ; v. 4.
- Transcodification: arts, languages and media ; Volume 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy in literature.
- Narration (Rhetoric).
- Fiction--History and criticism.
- Fiction.
- Literature--Philosophy.
- Literature.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 126 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2022]
- Summary:
- What is the connection between philosophical enquiries and storytelling in contemporary narrative? Is it possible to outline some features of a so-called philosophical fiction in Western literature throughout the last two centuries? This book aims to provide a plural answer, hosting extensive essays by seven young researchers coming from different fields (Theory of literature, German, American, Russian and Italian contemporary literature, history and evolution of the essayistic form). A short The volume is addressed to all those with a strong interest in both evolution of philosophical speech and history of the novel and has a strong vocation to promote interdisciplinarity in literary studies.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Disenchanting the World: A Reflection on the Common Ground Between the Novel Form and the Essay / Raffaelto Palumbo Mosca
- An Irreconcilable Discrepancy: Sketching a Theory of the Novel-essay / Valeria Cavatloro
- The Totality that Does not Die: On the early Twentieth-century Novel-essay and two Rearticulations of Bourgeois Culture / Mimmo Cangiano
- Thinking and Narrating Eroticism in Italy in the Sixties / Silvia Cucchi
- Between the "Roman-Essay" and the "Essay-Roman": Jean Amery's Lefeu Oder Der Abbruch and W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz / Lara Toffoli
- On the Relationship between Novel-essay and Science-fiction / Lorenzo Marchese
- The Essayification of Narrative Forms in the 21st Century: a Comparative Study / Marine Aubry-Morici
- The Trunk and the Branches / Francesco Pecoraro.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 3110764040
- 9783110764048
- OCLC:
- 1285494084
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