LEADER 03085nam 22005415 450 001 9910154633103321 005 20201008023552.0 010 $a9780674974036 010 $a0674974034 010 $a9780674974029 010 $a0674974026 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674974029 035 $a(CKB)3710000000971631 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4771933 035 $a(DE-B1597)502320 035 $a(OCoLC)967028693 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674974029 035 $a(PPN)223626813 035 $a(Perlego)3122237 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000971631 100 $a20180924d2017 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aTheory of the Novel /$fGuido Mazzoni 210 1$aCambridge, MA :$cHarvard University Press,$d[2017] 210 4$d©2017 215 $a1 online resource (viii, 392 pages) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 08$a9780674333727 311 08$a0674333721 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tTranslator?s Note --$tIntroduction: Truth and Literature --$tONE: A Theory of Narrative --$tTWO: The Origin of the Novel --$tTHREE: The Novel and the Literature of the Ancien Régime --$tFOUR: The Book of Particular Life --$tFIVE: The Birth of the Modern Novel --$tSIX: The Nineteenth- Century Paradigm --$tSEVEN: The Transition to Modernism --$tEIGHT: On Contemporary Fiction --$tConclusion: A Theory of the Novel --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $aThe novel is the most important form of Western art. It represents the totality of life; it is the flagship that literature lines up against systematic thought, against science and philosophy. Over the past two hundred years the novel has inspired more essays and reflections than any other aesthetic form, and contributed profoundly in conveying ideas of social life and patterns of behavior. Through the novel, Western literature expanded the range of its themes and possibilities, and has come to tell any story in any way; through the novel, Western literature has been able to delineate the ordinary existence of common people in a serious way, expressing the spirit of an age in which nothing matters except the single individual life. Nearly a century after the Gyo?rgy Luka?cs' essay of the same name, this book offers a comprehensive interpretation of the novel as a cultural phenomenon and as a sign and symptom of the modern condition. This is a work of comparative literature covering four centuries of Western culture, but also a book about our epoch, about its values and its genealogy.--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aFiction$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc 606 $aLiterature$xPhilosophy 615 0$aFiction$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc. 615 0$aLiterature$xPhilosophy. 676 $a809.3 700 $aMazzoni$b Guido$0294684 701 $aHanafi$b Zakiya$0293159 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910154633103321 996 $aTheory of the Novel$92861846 997 $aUNINA