Forms of Modernity : Don Quixote and Modern Theories of the Novel / Rachel Schmidt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schmidt, Rachel, author.

Series:

University of Toronto romance series Forms of modernity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Don Quixote.

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de.

Don Quixote (Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de).

Fiction--History and criticism.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (426 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"It's a critical cliche that Cervantes' Don Quixote is the first modern novel, but this distinction raises two fundamental questions. First, how does one define a novel? And second, what is the relationship between this genre and understandings of modernity? In Forms of Modernity, Rachel Schmidt examines how seminal theorists and philosophers have wrestled with the status of Cervantes' masterpiece as an 'exemplary novel', in turn contributing to the emergence of key concepts within genre theory.

Schmidt's discussion covers the views of well-known thinkers such as Friedrich Schlegel, Jose Ortega y Gasset, and Mikhail Bakhtin, but also the pivotal contributions of philosophers such as Hermann Cohen and Miguel de Unamuno. These theorists' examinations of Cervantes's fictional knight errant character point to an ever-shifting boundary between the real and the virtual. Drawing from both intellectual and literary history, Forms of Modernity richly explores the development of the categories and theories that we use today to analyze and understand novels."--Pub. desc.

Contents:

Don Quixote and the problem of modernity

Arabesques and the modern novel : Friedrich Schlegel's interpretation of Don Quixote

The emptiness of the arabesque : Georg Lukács's theory of the novel

Ideas and forms : Hermann Cohen's novelistics

The poetics of resuscitation : Unamuno's anti-novelistics

Form foreshortened : Ortega y Gasset's mediations on Don Quixote

Don Quixote in Bakhtin

Revolutions and the novel.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-376) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 13. Sep 2017)

ISBN:

9781442694194

144269419X

9781442694187

1442694181

OCLC:

755882830