Theory of the Novel / / Guido Mazzoni.

In his theory of the novel, Guido Mazzoni explains that novels consist of stories told in any way whatsoever about the experiences of ordinary men and women who exist as contingent beings within time and space. Novels allow readers to step into other lives and other versions of truth, each a small,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (378 p.) :; 1 line illustration
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Translator’s Note
  • Introduction: Truth and Literature
  • ONE: A Theory of Narrative
  • TWO: The Origin of the Novel
  • THREE: The Novel and the Literature of the Ancien Régime
  • FOUR: The Book of Particular Life
  • FIVE: The Birth of the Modern Novel
  • SIX: The Nineteenth- Century Paradigm
  • SEVEN: The Transition to Modernism
  • EIGHT: On Contemporary Fiction
  • Conclusion: A Theory of the Novel
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index