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A history of the Irish novel /
"While some literary critics have traced the origins of the novel back to ancient Greece, the modern novel as an access to the narratives of bourgeois modernity emerged into Western culture in the late seventeenth century. The struggle of that class toward definition and the striving to articul...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York, N.Y. :
Cambridge University Press,
©2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "While some literary critics have traced the origins of the novel back to ancient Greece, the modern novel as an access to the narratives of bourgeois modernity emerged into Western culture in the late seventeenth century. The struggle of that class toward definition and the striving to articulate its character is central to the novel and the stories it tells. Its novelty is found in a formlessness that nonetheless aspires to some idea of order and unity. Indeed, the energies of the early modern novel form can be discerned in its constant assertion of narratives that enact that search for completeness while also allowing for a kind of mourning for the security that older, traditional forms and stories allowed. Thus, novelists, then as now, revel in the possibilities that formal innovation permits while their characters find themselves forced to acknowledge the newness of their world and their experiences in that world"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 341 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-334) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781139042543 1139042548 1139041002 9781139041003 9780511975615 0511975619 |