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A history of the Bildungsroman : from ancient beginnings to Romanticism /
"This book establishes a vector of methodology in the approach to a particular type of fictional discourse, namely the English Bildungsroman (the novel of identity formation). Its wide-ranging critical perspectives are also useful to anyone concerned with, first of all, European and English nov...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Newcastle upon Tyne, UK :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2018.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Towards a definition and a vector of methodology in the approach to the bildungsroman as a literary system
- Bakhtin on fictional typology from ancient times to Goethe
- Antiquity: the beginnings and first elements
- The middle ages: the contribution of French and English romances
- The renaissance and the seventeenth century: the rise of the picaresque novel and the birth of the pattern
- The eighteenth century: the rise of the English novel and the pattern of development. Picaresque heritage and neoclassical principles shaping verisimilitude
- Verisimilitude in its literary expression: practical argumentation. Gulliver's travels and verisimilitude absent
- Robinson Crusoe and verisimilitude implied
- Pamela and verisimilitude limited
- Joseph Andrews and verisimilitude complexified
- Tom Jones and verisimilitude panoramic
- Comparative and final remarks
- Other fictional voices: Smollett, Sterne, Austen and the Gothic authors
- Neoclassicism again, now also shaping literary theory
- The Romantic impulse and the pattern nearly established. Individuality and romanticism: characteristics and thematic complexity of a unitary movement
- Individuality in focus: nature, dualism of existence, escapism, and rebelliousness
- Nature, pantheism, and the growing poetic mind: practical argumentation.