Buch, Englisch, 960 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 1604 g
Forms and Themes
Buch, Englisch, 960 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 1604 g
ISBN: 978-0-691-13473-4
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 2: Forms and Themes, views the novel primarily from the inside, examining its many formal arrangements and recurrent thematic manifestations, and looking at the plurality of the genre and its lineages. These books will be essential reading for all students and scholars of literature.
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On The Novel ix
2.1. THE LONG DURATION
The Novel in Search of Itself: A Historical Morphology by THOMAS PAVEL 3
Epic, Novel by MASSIMO FUSILLO 32
The Poetry of Mediocrity by SYLVIE THOREL-CAILLETEAU 64
The Experiments of Time: Providence and Realism by FREDRIC JAMESON 95
Readings: Prototypes
Massimo Fusillo, Aethiopika (Heliodorus, Third or Fourth Century) 131
Abdelfattah Kilito, Maqamat (Hamadhan? FD, Late Tenth Century) 138
Francisco Rico, Lazarillo de Tormes ("L?zaro de Tormes," circa 1553) 146
Thomas DiPiero, Le Grand Cyrus (Madeleine de Scud?ry, 1649-1653) 152
Perry Anderson, Persian Letters (Montesquieu, 1721) 161
Ian Duncan, Waverley (Walter Scott, 1814) 173
Paolo Tortonese, The Mysteries of Paris (Eug?ne Sue, 1842-1843) 181
Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, The War of the Worlds (H. G. Wells, 1898) 189
Ambrosio Fornet, The Kingdom of This World (Alejo Carpentier, 1949) 196
2.2. WRITING PROSE
Forms of the Supernatural in Narrative by FRANCESCO ORLANDO 207
The Prose of the World by MICHAL PELED GINSBURG AND LORRI G. NANDREA 244
Excess and History in Hugo's Ninety-three by UMBERTO ECO 274
Minor Characters by ALEX WOLOCH 295
324 Toward a Database of Novelistic Topoi by NATHALIE FERRAND 324
2.3. THEMES, FIGURES
The Fiction of Bourgeois Morality and the Paradox of Individualism by NANCY ARMSTRONG 349
The Death of Lucien de Rubempr? by A. S. BYATT 389
A Portrait of the Artist as a Social Climber: Upward Mobility in the Novel by BRUCE ROBBINS 409
A Businessman in Love by FREDRIC JAMESON 436
Readings: Narrating Politics
Benedict Anderson, Max Havelaar (Multatuli, 1860) 449
Luisa Villa, The Tiger of Malaysia (Emilio Salgari, 1883-1884) 463
Edoarda Masi, Ah Q (Lu Hs?n, 1921-1922) 469
Thomas Lahusen, Cement (Fedor Gladkov, 1925) 476
Piergiorgio Bellocchio, A Private Matter (Beppe Fenoglio, 1963) 483
Simon Gikandi, Arrow of God (Chinua Achebe, 1964) 489
Jos? Miguel Oviedo, Conversation in the Cathedral (Mario Vargas Llosa, 1969) 497
Klaus R. Scherpe, The Aesthetics of Resistance (Peter Weiss, 1975-1981) 503
Readings: The Sacrifice of the Heroine
April Alliston, Aloisa and Melliora (Love in Excess, Eliza Haywood, 1719-1720) 515
Juliet Mitchell, Natasha and H?l?ne (War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy, 1863-1869) 534
Sylvie Thorel-Cailleteau, Nana (Nana, ?mile Zola, 1880) 541
Valentine Cunningham, Tess (Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy, 1891) 548
Peter Madsen, Elsie (The Dangerous Age, Karin Micha?lis, 1910) 559
2.4. S PACE AND STORY
Over-writing as Un-writing: Descriptions, World-Making, and Novelistic Time by MIEKE BAL 571
The Roads of the Novel by HANS ULRICH GUMBRECHT 611
The Chronotopes of the Sea by MARGARET COHEN 647
667 Torn Space: James Joyce's Ulysses by PHILIP FISHER 667
Readings: The New Metropolis
Leo Ou-fan Lee, Shanghai (Midnight, Mao Dun, 1932) 687
Ernesto Franco, Buenos Aires (Ad?n Buenosayres, Leopoldo Marechal, 1948) 693
Ernest Emenyonu, Lagos (People of the City, Cyprian Ekwensi, 1954) 700
Roger Allen, Cairo (The Cairo Trilogy, Naguib Mahfouz, 1956-1957) 706
Ardis L. Nelson, Havana (Three Trapped Tigers, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, 1967) 714
Homi Bhabha, Bombay (Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie, 1981) 721
Sibel Irzik, Istanbul (The Black Book, Orhan Pamuk, 1990) 728
2.5. UNCERTAIN BOUNDARIES
Form and Chance: The German Novella by ANDREAS GAILUS 739
Inconceivable History: Storytelling as Hyperphasia and Disavowal by FRANCIS MULHERN 777
Innovation: Notes on Nihilism and the Aesthetics of the Novel by JOHN BRENKMAN 808
Narrative Literature in the Turing Universe by ESPEN AARSETH 839
Readings: A Century of Experiments
871 Andreina Lavagetto, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Rainer Maria Rilke, 1910) 871
Myra Jehlen, The Making of Americans (Gertrude Stein, 1925) 880
Ann Banfield, Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf, 1925) 888
Jos? Luiz Passos, Macuna?ma (M?rio de Andrade, 1928) 896
Seamus Deane, Finnegans Wake ( James Joyce, 1939) 906
Declan Kiberd, Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable (Samuel Beckett, 1951-1953) 912
Beatriz Sarlo, Hopscotch ( Julio Cort?zar, 1963) 919
Ursula K. Heise, Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon, 1973) 926
Contributors 933
Author Index 937
Works Cited Index 944
