Buch, Englisch, 928 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 1548 g
History, Geography, and Culture
Buch, Englisch, 928 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 1548 g
ISBN: 978-0-691-12718-7
Verlag: Princeton University Press
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 multiauthored reference work, containing more than one hundred specially commissioned essays by leading contemporary critics from around the world. Providing the first international comparative reassessment of the novel, these essential volumes reveal the form in unprecedented depth and breadth--as a great cultural, social, and human phenomenon that stretches from the ancient Greeks to today, where modernity itself is unimaginable without the genre. By viewing the novel as much more than an aesthetic form, this landmark collection demonstrates how the genre has transformed human emotions and behavior, and the very perception of reality. Historical, statistical, and formal analyses show the novel as a complex literary system, in which new forms proliferate in every period and place. Volume 1: History, Geography, and Culture, looks at the novel mostly from the outside, treating the transition from oral to written storytelling and the rise of narrative and fictionality, and covering the ancient Greek novel, the novel in premodern China, the early Spanish novel, and much else, including readings of novels from around the world. These books will be essential reading for all students and scholars of literature.
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On The Novel ix
1.1. A STRUGGLE FOR SPACE 1
From Oral to Written: An Anthropological Breakthrough in Storytelling by JACK GOODY 3
The Control of the Imagination and the Novel by LUIZ COSTA LIMA 37
Historiography and Fiction in Chinese Culture by HENRY Y. H. ZHAO 69
The Novel on Trial by WALTER SITI 94
1.2. P OLYGENESIS
The Ancient Greek Novel: A Single Model or a Plurality of Forms? by TOMAS H?GG 125
Medieval French Romance by ALBERTO VARVARO 156
The Novel in Premodern China by ANDREW H. PLAKS 181
Critical Apparatus: The Semantic Field of "Narrative"
Stefano Levi Della Torre, Midrash 217
Maurizio Bettini, Mythos/Fabula 225
Adriana Boscaro, Monogatari 241
Judith T. Zeitlin, Xiaoshuo 249
Abdelfattah Kilito, Qisa 262
Piero Boitani, Romance 269
Maria Di Salvo, Povest' 283
1.3. THE EUROPEAN ACCELERATION
The Short, Happy Life of the Novel in Spain by JOAN RAMON RESINA 291
313 Forms of Popular Narrative in France and England: 1700-1900 by DANIEL COU{{Eacute}}GNAS
The Rise of Fictionality by CATHERINE GALLAGHER 336
Serious Century by FRANCO MORETTI 364
The Ruse of the Russian Novel by WILLIAM MILLS TODD III 401
1.4. THE CIRCLE WIDENS
Critical Apparatus: The Market for Novels-Some Statistical Profiles
James Raven, Britain, 1750-1830 429
John Austin, United States, 1780-1850 455
Giovanni Ragone, Italy, 1815-1870 466
Elisa Mart?-L?pez and Mario Santana, Spain, 1843-1900 479
Priya Joshi, India, 1850-1900 495
Jonathan Zwicker, Japan, 1850-1900 509
Wendy Griswold, Nigeria, 1950-2000 521
The Sign of the Voice: Orality and Writing in the United States by ALESSANDRO PORTELLI 531
The Long Nineteenth Century of the Japanese Novel by JONATHAN ZWICKER 553
Epic and Novel in India by MEENAKSHI MUKHERJEE 596
The Novel of a Continent: Latin America by GERALD MARTIN 632
The Extroverted African Novel by EILEEN JULIEN 667
1.5. TOWARD WORLD LITERATURE
The Novelists' International by MICHAEL DENNING 703
Fecundities of the Unexpected: Magical Realism, Narrative, and History by ATO QUAYSON 726
Readings: Traditions in Contact
Abdelfattah Kilito, Al-Saq `ala al-saq f im a huwa al-Faryaq
(Ahmad Faris Shidya q, Paris, 1855) 759
Norma Field, Drifting Clouds (Futabatei Shimei, Japan, 1887-1889) 766
Jale Parla, A Carriage Affair (Recaizade Mahmut Ekrem, Turkey, 1896) 775
Jongyon Hwang, The Heartless (Yi Kwangsu, Korea, 1917) 781
M. Keith Booker, Chaka (Thomas Mofolo, South Africa, 1925) 786
M. R. Ghanoonparvar, The Blind Owl (Sadeq Hedayat, Iran, 1941) 794
Readings: Americas
Alessandro Portelli, Uncle Tom's Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe, United States, 1852) 805
Roberto Schwarz, Posthumous Memoirs of Br?s Cubas ( J. M. Machado de Assis, Brazil, 1880) 816
Jonathan Arac, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain, United States, 1884) 841
Ernesto Franco, Pedro P?ramo ( Juan Rulfo, Mexico, 1955) 855
Stephanie Merrim, Grande Sert?o: Veredas ( Jo?o Guimar?es Rosa, Brazil, 1956) 862
Jos? Miguel Oviedo, The Death of Artemio Cruz (Carlos Fuentes, Mexico, 1962) 870
Clarisse Zimra, Lone Sun (Daniel Maximin, Guadeloupe, 1981) 876
Alessandro Portelli, Beloved (Toni Morrison, United States, 1987) 886
Contributors 893
Author Index 897
Works Cited Index 907
