Time and the novel : the genealogical imperative /

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Formalist criticism of the modern novel has concentrated on its spatial aspects. Patricia Tobin focuses, instead, on the modern novel's temporal structure. She notes that the ""genealogical imperative"" that dominated the nineteenth-century novel, in which one event gave bir...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Tobin, Patricia Drechsel, 1935-2005 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1978.
Series:Princeton legacy library.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Families in literature.
Familles dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Families in literature
Fiction
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • INTRODUCTION. Whence the Novel: The Genealogical Imperative
  • 1. Subverting the Father: Some Nineteenth-Century Precursors
  • 2. "Links in a Chain": Thomas Mann, Bnddenbrooks
  • 3. The Cycle Dance: D.H. Lawrence, The Rainbow
  • 4. "The Shadowy Attenuation of Time": William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!
  • 5. "A Colored Spiral in a Ball of Glass": "Vladimir Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
  • 6. "Everything Is Known": Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
  • CONCLUSION. Whither the Novel: The Wager on Surface
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Backmatter

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