Author: Richard StangPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Theory of the Novel
Author: Guido MazzoniPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674333721
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
In his theory of the novel, Guido Mazzoni explains that novels consist of stories told in any way whatsoever about the experiences of ordinary men and women who exist as contingent beings within time and space. Novels allow readers to step into other lives and other versions of truth, each a small, local world, absolute in its particularity.
The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740
Author: Michael McKeonPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801869594
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
The novel emerged, McKeon contends, as a cultural instrument designed to engage the epistemological and social crises of the age.
The Theory of the Novel in England, 1850-1870
Author: Richard StangFlat Protagonists
Author: Marta FiglerowiczPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190496762
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
We've all encountered protagonists who, over the course of a novel, turn out to be more complicated than we thought at first. But what does one do with a major character who simplifies as a novel progresses, to the point where even this novel's other characters begin to disregard him? Flat Protagonists shows that writers have undertaken such formal experiments-which give rise to its titular "flat protagonists"-since the novel's incipience. It finds such characters in British and French novels ranging from the late-seventeenth to the early-twentieth century by Aphra Behn, Isabelle de Charri re, Fran oise de Graffigny, Thomas Hardy, and Marcel Proust. Marta Figlerowicz argues that these uncommon flat protagonists challenge our larger views about the novel as a genre. Upending a longstanding tradition of valuing characters for their complexity, Figlerowicz proposes that novels, and their characters, should be appreciated for highlighting the limits to how much attention any particular person's self-expression tends to garner, and how much insight anyone has to offer her community. As invitations to consider how we might come across to others, rather than merely how others come across to us, flat protagonists both subvert and complement the more conventional approach to novels as, at their best, sites of instruction in interpersonal empathy.
The English Novel
Author: Terry EagletonPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118724925
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Written by one of the world’s leading literary theorists, this book provides a wide-ranging, accessible and humorous introduction to the English novel from Daniel Defoe to the present day. Covers the works of major authors, including Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, Laurence Sterne, Walter Scott, Jane Austen, the Brontës, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence and James Joyce. Distils the essentials of the theory of the novel. Follows the model of Eagleton’s hugely popular Literary Theory: An Introduction (Second Edition, 1996).
The Theory of the Novel in England, 1850-1870
Author: Richard StangPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Theory of the Novel
Author: Michael McKeonPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801863974
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 972
Book Description
McKeon and others delve into the significance of the novel as a genre form, issues in novel techniques such as displacement, the grand theory, narrative modes such as subjectivity, character, and development, critical interpretation of the structure of the novel, and the novel in historical context.
Risk and the English Novel
Author: Julia HoydisPublisher: de Gruyter
ISBN: 9783110614862
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
Taking the cue from the currency of risk in popular and interdisciplinary academic discourse, this book explores the development of the English novel in relation to the emergence and institutionalization of risk, from its origins in probability theory in the late seventeenth century to the global 'risk society' in the twenty-first century. Focussing on 29 novels from Defoe to McEwan, this book argues for the contemporaneity of the rise of risk and the novel and suggests that there is much to gain from reading the risk society from a diachronic, literary-cultural perspective. Tracing changes and continuities, the fictional case studies reveal the human preoccupation with safety and control of the future. They show the struggle with uncertainties and the construction of individual or collective 'logics' of risk, which oscillate between rational calculation and emotion, helplessness and denial, and an enabling or destructive sense of adventure and danger. Advancing the study of risk in fiction beyond the confinement to dystopian disaster narratives, this book shows how topical notions, such as chance and probability, uncertainty and responsibility, fears of decline and transgression, all cluster around risk.
The Theory of Novel in England 1850-1870
Author: Richard StangTheory of the Novel
Author: Philip StevickPublisher: New York : Free Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Comprehensive collections of theoretical essays on various facets of the novel.