The Novel. Volume 1, History, Geography, and Culture. /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2006.
Temas:
Fiction > History and criticism.
Roman > Histoire et critique.
Fiction.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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