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Record Nr.

UNISA996478965603316

Autore

Fusillo Massimo

Titolo

Thinking Narratively : Between Novel-Essay and Narrative Essay / / ed. by Massimo Fusillo, Gianluigi Simonetti, Lorenzo Marchese

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin/Boston, : De Gruyter, 2022

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

3-11-076418-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VI, 126 p.)

Collana

Transcodification: Arts, Languages and Media , , 2702-7732 ; ; 4

Disciplina

809.39384

Soggetti

LITERARY CRITICISM / General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Disenchanting the World: A Reflection on the Common Ground Between the Novel Form and the Essay -- An Irreconcilable Discrepancy: Sketching a Theory of the Novel-essay -- The Totality that Does not Die: On the early Twentieth-century Novel-essay and two Rearticulations of Bourgeois Culture -- Thinking and Narrating Eroticism in Italy in the Sixties -- Between the “Roman-Essay” and the “Essay-Roman”: Jean Améry’s Lefeu oder Der Abbruch and W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz -- On the Relationship between Novel-essay and Science-fiction -- The Essayification of Narrative Forms in the 21st Century: a Comparative Study -- The Trunk and the Branches -- About the Authors -- Index of Persons -- Index of Subjects

Sommario/riassunto

What is the connection between philosophical enquiries and storytelling in contemporary narrative? Is it possible to outline some features of a so-called philosophical fiction in Western literature throughout the last two centuries? This book aims to provide a plural answer, hosting extensive essays by seven young researchers coming from different fields (Theory of literature, German, American, Russian and Italian contemporary literature, history and evolution of the essayistic form). A short The volume is addressed to all those with a strong interest in both evolution of philosophical speech and history of the novel and has a strong vocation to promote interdisciplinarity in literary studies.