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The novel. Volume 1 : history, geography and culture / edited by Franco Moretti.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Plurality of worlds in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (930 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2006]
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- Nearly as global in its ambition and sweep as its subject, Franco Moretti's The Novel is a watershed event in the understanding of the first truly planetary literary form. A translated selection from the epic five-volume Italian Il Romanzo (2001-2003), The Novel's two volumes are a unified multiauthored reference work, containing more than one hundred specially commissioned essays by leading contemporary critics from around the world. Providing the first international comparative reassessment of the novel, these essential volumes reveal the form in unprecedented depth and breadth--as a great cultural, social, and human phenomenon that stretches from the ancient Greeks to today, where modernity itself is unimaginable without the genre. By viewing the novel as much more than an aesthetic form, this landmark collection demonstrates how the genre has transformed human emotions and behavior, and the very perception of reality. Historical, statistical, and formal analyses show the novel as a complex literary system, in which new forms proliferate in every period and place. Volume 1: History, Geography, and Culture, looks at the novel mostly from the outside, treating the transition from oral to written storytelling and the rise of narrative and fictionality, and covering the ancient Greek novel, the novel in premodern China, the early Spanish novel, and much else, including readings of novels from around the world. These books will be essential reading for all students and scholars of literature.
- Contents:
- Cover Page
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- On The Novel
- Part 1.1. A Struggle For Space
- From Oral to Written: An Anthropological Breakthrough in Storytelling
- The Control of the Imagination and the Novel
- Historiography and Fiction in Chinese Culture
- The Novel on Trial
- Part 1.2. Polygenesis
- The Ancient Greek Novel: A Single Model or a Plurality of Forms?
- Medieval French Romance
- The Novel in Premodern China
- Critical Apparatus: The Semantic Field of "Narrative"
- Midrash
- Mythos/Fabula
- Monogatari
- Xiaoshuo
- Qiṣṣa
- Romance
- Povest'
- Part 1.3. The European Acceleration
- The Short, Happy Life of the Novel in Spain
- Forms of Popular Narrative in France and England: 1700-1900
- The Rise of Fictionality
- Serious Century
- The Ruse of the Russian Novel
- Part 1.4. The Circle Widens
- Critical Apparatus: The Market for Novels- Some Statistical Profiles
- Britain, 1750-1830
- United States, 1780-1850
- Italy, 1815-1870
- Spain, 1843-1900
- India, 1850-1900
- Japan, 1850-1900
- Nigeria, 1950-2000
- The Sign of the Voice: Orality and Writing in the United States
- The Long Nineteenth Century of the Japanese Novel
- Epic and Novel in India
- The Novel of a Continent: Latin America
- The Extroverted African Novel
- Part 1.5. Toward World Literature
- The Novelists' International
- Fecundities of the Unexpected: Magical Realism, Narrative, and History
- Readings: Traditions in Contact
- Al-Sāq 'alā al-sāq fīm ā huwa al-Fāryāq (Aḥmad Fāris Shidyāq, Paris, 1855)
- Drifting Clouds (Futabatei Shimei, Japan, 1887-1889)
- A Carriage Affair (Recaizade Mahmut Ekrem, Turkey, 1896)
- The Heartless (Yi Kwangsu, Korea, 1917)
- Chaka (Thomas Mofolo, South Africa, 1925)
- The Blind Owl (Sadeq Hedayat, Iran, 1941)
- Readings: Americas.
- Uncle Tom's Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe, United States, 1852)
- Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas (J. M. Machado de Assis, Brazil, 1880)
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain, United States, 1884)
- Pedro Páramo (Juan Rulfo, Mexico, 1955)
- Grande Sertão: Veredas (João Guimarães Rosa, Brazil, 1956)
- The Death of Artemio Cruz (Carlos Fuentes, Mexico, 1962)
- Lone Sun (Daniel Maximin, Guadeloupe, 1981)
- Beloved (Toni Morrison, United States, 1987)
- Contributors
- Author Index
- Works Cited Index.
- Notes:
- Translated from the Italian.
- A selection from the original five-volume work, published in Torino by G. Einaudi editore, c2001-c2003.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780691243757
- 0691243751
- OCLC:
- 1299384050
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