Theory of the Novel / Guido Mazzoni.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mazzoni, Guido, author.

Contributor:

Hanafi, Zakiya.

Standardized Title:

Teoria del romanzo. English

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Fiction--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Fiction.

Literature--Philosophy.

Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 392 pages).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The novel is the most important form of Western art. It represents the totality of life; it is the flagship that literature lines up against systematic thought, against science and philosophy. Over the past two hundred years the novel has inspired more essays and reflections than any other aesthetic form, and contributed profoundly in conveying ideas of social life and patterns of behavior. Through the novel, Western literature expanded the range of its themes and possibilities, and has come to tell any story in any way; through the novel, Western literature has been able to delineate the ordinary existence of common people in a serious way, expressing the spirit of an age in which nothing matters except the single individual life. Nearly a century after the György Lukács' essay of the same name, this book offers a comprehensive interpretation of the novel as a cultural phenomenon and as a sign and symptom of the modern condition. This is a work of comparative literature covering four centuries of Western culture, but also a book about our epoch, about its values and its genealogy.-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Translator’s Note

Introduction: Truth and Literature

ONE: A Theory of Narrative

TWO: The Origin of the Novel

THREE: The Novel and the Literature of the Ancien Régime

FOUR: The Book of Particular Life

FIVE: The Birth of the Modern Novel

SIX: The Nineteenth- Century Paradigm

SEVEN: The Transition to Modernism

EIGHT: On Contemporary Fiction

Conclusion: A Theory of the Novel

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Sep 2018)

ISBN:

9780674974036

0674974034

9780674974029

0674974026

OCLC:

967028693