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The Encyclopedia of the Novel.

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Format:: Book
Author/Creator:: Logan, Peter Melville.
Contributor:: George, Olakunle.; Hegeman, Susan.; Kristal, Efraín.
Series:: Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature Series; Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature Series ; v.2
Language:: English
Subjects (All):: Fiction--Encyclopedias.; Fiction -- Encyclopedias.
Physical Description:: 1 online resource (795 pages)
Edition:: 1st ed.
Place of Publication:: Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2011.
Summary:: An advanced reference resource, The Encyclopedia of the Novel offers authoritative accounts of the history, terminology, genre and theory of the novel, in over 150 articles written by leading scholars in the fieldPart of the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of LiteratureArranged in A-Z format across 2 fully indexed and meticulously cross-referenced volumes, featuring nearly 150 contributors and over 500,000 wordsWritten by an international cast of leading scholars, overseen by an Advisory Board of 37 specialistsEntries explore the history and tradition of the novel in different areas of the world; formal elements of the novel (story, plot, character, narrator); technical aspects of the genre (such as realism, narrative structure and style) as well as subgenres, including the bildungsroman and the graphic novel; theoretical problems, like definitions of the novel; and topics in book history and the novel's relationship to other arts and disciplinesOnline version provides students and researchers with 24/7 access to authoritative reference and powerful searching, browsing and cross-referencing capabilitiesSpecial introductory price available.
Contents:: The Encyclopedia of the Novel; Contents; Alphabetical List of Entries; List of Entries by Topic; Editors; Board of Advisors; Contributors; Introduction; Acknowledgments; The Novel A-Z; A; Adaptation/Appropriation; VOICING THE MARGINALIZED CHARACTER; POSTCOLONIAL RECONFIGURATIONS; CHALLENGING AND CONFIRMING THE CANON; THEORETICAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXTS; IDEAS OF AUTHORSHIP; SHADOW TEXTS; QUESTIONS OF ORIGINALITY; DRAMA, FILM, AND THEATER ADAPTATIONS; MULTIMEDIA AND THE NOVEL AS ADAPTATION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; African American Novel; THE ANTEBELLUM AND CIVIL WAR ERAS; FROM THE POSTBELLUM YEARS TO THE 1910s; THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE; THE 1940s AND 1950s: WRIGHT, ELLISON, AND BALDWIN; THE 1960s TO THE PRESENT; Ancient Narratives of China; ANCIENT NARRATIVES IN EARLY HISTORY CLASSICS; SIMA QIAN'S HISTORICAL RECORDS; HISTORICAL RECORDS AS ANCIENT NARRATIVE: A COMPARISON WITH CLASSICS OF WESTERN HISTORY; ANCIENT NARRATIVES IN WORKS OF HISTORY AFTER HISTORICAL RECORDS; ANCIENT NARRATIVES IN OTHER EARLY CHINESE WORKS; THE COMING OF AGE OF THE NOVEL: THE DECREASING IMPACT OF THE ANCIENT NARRATIVES; Ancient Narratives of South Asia; THE MAHABHARATA AND THE RAMAYANA; DIDACTIC AND POETIC NARRATIVE; POETIC NARRATIVE IN THEORY AND PRACTICE; Ancient Narratives of the West; THE LIFE OF AHIQAR; METAPHYSICS AND THE TRIBUTARY STATE; THE ALEXANDER ROMANCE; CHARITON, CALLIRHOE; THE ANCIENT NOVEL DISAPPEARS; Andes; Anthropology; ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES; DEVELOPMENTS IN ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE NOVEL; THE "ETHNOGRAPHIC IMAGINATION"; AUTOETHNOGRAPHY; Arabic Novel (Mashreq); CONTEXTS OF THE NOVEL; THE EMERGENCE OF THE NOVEL; NAGUIB MAHFOUZ.; OTHER NOVELISTS; MAJOR THEMES; Asian American Novel; EARLY ASIAN AMERICAN NOVELS; POST-1965 ASIAN AMERICAN NOVELS; Author; A HISTORY OF THE TERM; NEW CRITICISM AND RUSSIAN FORMALISM; STRUCTURALISM; POSTSTRUCTURALISM; TRADITIONALIST OBJECTIONS TO THE POSTSTRUCTURALIST CHALLENGE; THE IMPLIED AUTHOR; CONTEMPORARY RESTORATIONS OF THE AUTHOR; Authorship; AUTHORSHIP AS LEGAL APPROPRIATION; AUTHORSHIP AS WORK; AUTHORSHIP, ECONOMICSTRUGGLES, AND MORAL TRANSCENDENCE; AUTHORIAL INDIVIDUALISM; AUTHORSHIP, GENDER, AND THE NOVEL; B; Bakhtin, Mikhail; Baltic States; ESTONIAN NARRATIVE; LITHUANIAN NARRATIVE; LATVIAN NARRATIVE; Bildungsroman/ Künstlerroman; PLOTS OF DEVELOPMENT; VARIATIONS ON A HUMANIST THEME; THE SOCIAL WORK OF THE BILDUNGSROMAN; Brazil; OVERVIEW; A NEW BEGINNING; THE INWARD TURN; WITH AND WITHOUT A PAST; British Isles (18th Century); AMATORY NOVELS; FACT AND FICTION: PROTO-REALISM; RICHARDSON AND FIELDING: THE RISE OF THE NOVEL; SATIRE AND THE NOVEL OF IDEAS; WOMEN NOVELISTS AND CHARACTERS; STERNE AND THE NOVEL; SENTIMENTAL NOVELS; British Isles (19th Century); THE MATERIAL TEXTS; THE AUTHORS; THE REALIST CONSENSUS; THE CONSENSUS UNRAVELED; British Isles (20th Century); THE MODERNIST MARKET FOR NOVELS; COSMOPOLITAN BRITISH FICTION; LITERARY NETWORKING; THE NOVEL IN THE"ENGLISH SCHOOL"; LITERARY LONDON AFTER WWII; THE DECOLONIZATION OF BRITISH FICTION; THE GLOBALIZATION OF BRITISH FICTION; C; Canada; THE EMERGENCE OF THE NOVEL IN ENGLISH AND FRENCH CANADA: 1769-1860; THE CANADIAN NOVEL AT CONFEDERATION AND THE TURN OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: 1860-1914.; THE TWO WORLD WARS AND THE GREAT DEPRESSION: THE CANADIAN NOVEL, 1914-60; POSTMODERNISM, PLURALISM, AND THE CANADIAN NOVEL: 1960 TO THE PRESENT; Caribbean; THE NOVEL IN THE SPANISHSPEAKING CARIBBEAN; The Novel in Colonial Cuba; The Novel in Cuba after Independence; The Novel in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico; THE NOVEL IN THE ANGLOPHONE CARIBBEAN; THE NOVEL IN THE FRANCOPHONE CARIBBEAN; Censorship; FORMS OF CENSORSHIP; DANGER ZONES; PROTECTED GROUPS; CENSORSHIP OF PORNOGRAPHIC NOVELS; CENSORED CLASSICS; CENSORSHIP ACTIVISM; RECENT CONTROVERSIES; ARGUMENTS FOR AND AGAINST CENSORSHIP; Central America; THE EVOLUTION OF THE CENTRAL AMERICAN NOVEL IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY; TESTIMONY; RECENT EXPERIMENTS AND TRENDS; Central Europe; BEGINNINGS AND NATIONAL REVIVAL; REALISM AND THE TURN OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY; FROM THE TURN OF THE CENTURY TO 1945; AFTER 1945; Character; HUMANIST THEORIES OF CHARACTER; STRUCTURALIST THEORIES OF CHARACTER; CHARACTER AND THE READER; CHARACTER AND TYPE; CHARACTER AND PERSON; China; THE CLASSICAL NOVEL; LITERARY MODERNITY AND THE ASCENDANCY OF THE MODERN NOVEL; FROM SOCIALISM TO COMMERCIALISM: THE NOVEL'S GREAT LEAP FORWARD; LEADING CONTEMPORARY CHINESE NOVELISTS; THE NOVEL IN THE CHINESE SPEAKING WORLD; Class; DEFINING CLASS; CLASS AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH HISTORIOGRAPHY; CLASS AND THEORIES OF THE NOVEL; CLASS IN THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH NOVEL; Closure; THEORIES OF CLOSURE; CLOSURE AND THE HISTORY OF THE NOVEL; Cognitive Theory; NARRATIVE AS A COGNITIVE UNIVERSAL; COGNITIVE UNDERPINNINGS OF THE NOVEL: THREE HYPOTHESES; CONCLUSION; Comedy and Tragedy.; COMEDY AND TRAGEDY IN CLASSICAL LITERARY DISCOURSE; EARLY-MODERN AND MODERN ARTICULATIONS; COMEDY, TRAGEDY, AND THE NOVEL GENRE; Comparativism; FOUNDATIONS OF COMPARABILITY; GLOBAL COMPARATIVISM; COMPARATIVISM, GENRE, AND FORM; RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN COMPARATIVISM; Copyright/Libel; COPYRIGHT REGIMES, MONOPOLIES, INFRINGEMENTS; LIBEL AND THE NOVEL; COPYRIGHT, THE NOVEL AND ITS READERS; THE GLOBAL MARKETPLACE; D; Decadent Novel; Decorum/Verisimilitude; ORIGINS OF THE DOCTRINES IN ARISTOTLE AND HORACE; RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE FRENCH PROSE FICTION; Definitions of the Novel; HISTORIES OF THE NOVEL'S RISE; NOVEL AS A DEBASED AND SCANDALOUS OBJECT; THE NOVEL AS AN EXPRESSION OF THE NATION; THE NOVEL'S REALIST CLAIMS; THE NOVEL AS A FORM OF ART; Description; EARLY HISTORY, AND "EKPHRASIS"; THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES: FORMS OF DESCRIPTION; CHANGING ATTITUDES TOWARD DESCRIPTION; DESCRIPTION IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: REVULSION AND RETURN; Detective Novel; SOURCES; GENERIC DEVELOPMENTS; Dialect; Dialogue; HISTORY AND FORM OF DIALOGUE IN THE NOVEL; THE DIALOGUE NOVEL; CRITICAL STUDIES AND DEBATES; Dictatorship Novel; Disability Theory; Discourse; DIRECT DISCOURSE; INDIRECT DISCOURSE; TAGGED DISCOURSE; FREE DISCOURSE; Domestic Novel; E; Early American Novel; Eastern and Central Africa; THE LANGUAGE ISSUE; THE EARLY WRITERS; NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE AND POST-INDEPENDENCE DISILLUSIONMENT; Editing; LITERARY PROPRIETORSHIP; MULTIPLE INTENTIONS; AUTHORIAL REVISIONS; METHODS OF PRESENTATION.; BIBLIOGRAPHY; Epic; WHAT WAS ANCIENT EPIC?; ANCIENT EPIC IS NOT A MONOLITHIC GENRE; ANCIENT EPIC AND THE ANCIENT NOVEL; EROS, MARRIAGE, EPIC, AND THE NOVEL; The Epistolary Novel; LETTERS AS NEWS; THE EPISTOLARY NOVEL AS A LOVE STORY; THE FEMINIST, POSTSTRUCTURALIST, AND POSTCOLONIAL EPISTOLARY NOVEL; THE EPISTOLARY NOVEL IN NEW MEDIA; F; Feminist Theory; EARLY PERIOD: RECOVERING A FEMALE TRADITION OF THE NOVEL; THE 1980S: GENDER, CULTURAL POWER, AND THE NOVEL; THE AMERICAN TRADITION: RACE, HISTORY, AND AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN NOVELISTS; 1990s AND BEYOND: FROM THE NATIONAL TO THE TRANSNATIONAL; Fiction; ON FICTION AND THE NONFICTIONAL; FICTION AS PRETENSE OR AS A SOCIAL CONTRACT; FICTION AND THE EMOTIONS; Figurative Language and Cognition; TYPES OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE: SCHEMES AND TROPES; LITERAL VS. FIGURATIVE: THREE APPROACHES; THE NEED FOR COGNITIVE EXPLANATION; CONCEPTUAL METAPHOR THEORY; BLENDING THEORY; EMPIRICAL STUDY OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE; FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE AND THE STUDY OF LITERATURE; Formalism; MEDIUM SPECIFICITY AND THE MATERIALITY OF ART; DEVICES OF DEFAMILIARIZATION AND TRANSFORMATION; THE EVOLUTION OF AESTHETIC SYSTEMS; AFTERLIFE OF FORMALISM; Frame; THE PARATEXT; FRAMED STORIES AND NARRATIVE EMBEDDING; BREAKING THE FRAME; FRAMES, LOOPS, AND STACKS; France (18th Century); France (19th Century); France (20th Century); RUIN AND REBIRTH OF THE NOVEL; THE NEW NOVEL; REMEMBRANCE OF FORMS LOST AND FOUND; POPULAR AND POSTMODERN NOVELS; EXPLORING IDENTITIES AND IDEOLOGIES; THE FRANCOPHONE NOVEL: ONE AND/OR MANY; DETERRITORIALIZING THE "FRENCH" "NOVEL"; G.; Gender Theory.
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Other Format:: Print version: Logan, Peter Melville The Encyclopedia of the Novel
ISBN:: 9781118779064
OCLC:: 870589609

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