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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Golban, Petru (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.