The encyclopedia of the novel / / edited by Peter Melville Logan ; associate editors, Olakunle George, Susan Hegeman, and Efraín Kristal

• Record Nr.: UNISA996249647903316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chichester : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2011
• ISBN: 1-4443-3781-5; 1-118-77907-X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Collana: Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature
• Disciplina: 809.3/003
• Soggetti: Fiction
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature -- Title Page -- Copyright -- List of Entries by Topic -- Editors -- Board of Advisors -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- A -- Adaptation/Appropriation -- African American Novel -- Ancient Narratives of China -- Ancient Narratives of South Asia -- Ancient Narratives of the West -- Andes -- Anthropology -- Arabic Novel (Mashreq) -- Asian American Novel -- Author -- Authorship -- B -- Bakhtin, Mikhail -- Baltic States -- Bildungsroman/Künstlerroman -- Brazil -- British Isles (18th Century) -- British Isles (19th Century) -- British Isles (20th Century) -- C -- Canada -- Caribbean -- Censorship -- Central America -- Central Europe -- Character -- China -- Class -- Closure -- Cognitive Theory -- Comedy and Tragedy -- Comparativism -- Copyright/Libel -- D -- Decadent Novel -- Decorum/Verisimilitude -- Definitions of the Novel -- Description -- Detective Novel -- Dialect -- Dialogue -- Dictatorship Novel -- Disability Theory -- Discourse -- Domestic Novel -- E -- Early American Novel -- Eastern and Central Africa -- Editing -- Epic -- The Epistolary Novel -- F -- Feminist Theory -- Fiction -- Figurative Language and Cognition -- Formalism -- Frame -- France (18th Century) -- France (19th Century) -- France (20th Century) -- G -- Gender Theory -- Genre Theory -- German Novel -- Gothic Novel -- Graphic Novel -- H -- Hebrew Novel -- Historical Novel -- History of the Novel -- I -- Iberian Peninsula -- Ideology -- Illustrated Novel -- ; Intertextuality -- Iran -- Italy -- J -- Japan -- Jewish American Novel -- Journalism -- K -- Korea -- L -- Latina/o American Novel -- Libraries -- Life Writing -- Linguistics -- Low Countries (Europe) -- Lukács, Georg -- M -- Magical Realism -- Marxist Theory -- Melodrama -- Memory -- Metafiction -- Mexico -- Modernism -- Mythology -- N -- Narration.; Narrative -- Narrative Perspective -- Narrative Structure -- Narrative Technique -- Narrator -- National Literature -- Naturalism -- North Africa (Maghreb) -- Northern Europe -- Novel Theory (19th Century) -- Novel Theory (20th Century) -- O -- P -- Paper and Print Technology -- Parody/Satire -- Philosophical Novel -- Photography and the Novel -- Picaresque Novel -- Plot -- Psychoanalytic Theory -- Psychological Novel -- Publishing -- Q -- Queer Novel -- R -- Race Theory -- Reader -- Reading Aloud -- Realism -- Regional Novel -- Religion -- Reprints -- Reviewing -- Rhetoric and Figurative Language -- Romance -- Russia (18th-19th Century) -- Russia (20th Century) -- S -- Science Fiction/Fantasy -- Serialization -- Sexuality -- South Asia -- Southeast Asian Archipelago -- Southeast Asian Mainland -- Southeastern Europe -- Southern Africa -- Southern Cone (South America) -- Space -- Speech Act Theory -- Story/Discourse -- Structuralism/Poststructuralism -- Surrealism/Avant-Garde Novel -- T -- Time -- Translation Theory -- Turkey -- Typography -- U -- United States (19th Century) -- United States (20th Century) -- V -- W -- Western Africa -- X -- Y -- Yiddish Novel -- Z -- Index of Novelists -- General Index -- End User License Agreement.
• Sommario/riassunto: Part of the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature Arranged in A-Z format and featuring over 140 contributors Written by an international cast of leading scholars, overseen by an Advisory Board of 37 specialists Entries explore the history and tradition of the novel in different areas of the world