The Novel, Volume 2 : : Forms and Themes / / ed. by Franco Moretti.

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• MitwirkendeR: Aarseth, Espen,; Allen, Roger,; Alliston, April,; Anderson, Benedict,; Anderson, Perry,; Armstrong, Nancy,; Bal, Mieke,; Banfield, Ann,; Bellocchio, Piergiorgio,; Bhabha, Homi,; Brenkman, John,; Byatt, A. S.,; Cohen, Margaret,; Cunningham, Valentine,; Deane, Seamus,; Dipiero, Thomas,; Duncan, Ian,; Eco, Umberto,; Emenyonu, Ernest,; Ferrand, Nathalie,; Fisher, Philip,; Fornet, Ambrosio,; Franco, Ernesto,; Fusillo, Massimo,; Gailus, Andreas,; Gikandi, Simon,; Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich,; Heise, Ursula K.,; Irzik, Sibel,; Jameson, Fredric,; Jehlen, Myra,; Kiberd, Declan,; Kilito, Abdelfattah,; Lahusen, Thomas,; Lavagetto, Andreina,; Luiz Passos, José,; Madsen, Peter,; Masi, Edoarda,; Miguel Oviedo, José,; Mitchell, Juliet,; Mulhern, Francis,; Nandrea, Lorri G.,; Nelson, Ardis L.,; Orlando, Francesco,; Ou-Fan Lee, Leo,; Pavel, Thomas,; Peled Ginsburg, Michal,; Rico, Francisco,; Robbins, Bruce,; Sarlo, Beatriz,; Scherpe, Klaus R.,; Thorel-Cailleteau, Sylvie,; Tortonese, Paolo,; Villa, Luisa,; Winthrop-Young, Geoffrey,; Woloch, Alex,
• HerausgeberIn: Moretti, Franco,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (960 p.) :; 12 halftones.

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- On The Novel -- 2.1. THE LONG DURATION -- The Novel in Search of Itself: A Historical Morphology -- Epic, Novel -- The Poetry of Mediocrity -- The Experiments of Time: Providence and Realism -- Readings: Prototypes -- Aethiopika (Heliodorus, Third or Fourth Century) -- Maqāmāt (Hamadhānī, Late Tenth Century) -- Lazarillo de Tormes (“Lázaro de Tormes,” circa 1553) -- Le Grand Cyrus (Madeleine de Scudéry, 1649–1653) -- Persian Letters (Montesquieu, 1721) -- Waverley (Walter Scott, 1814) -- The Mysteries of Paris (Eugène Sue, 1842–1843) -- The War of the Worlds (H. G. Wells, 1898) -- The Kingdom of This World (Alejo Carpentier, 1949) -- 2.2. WRITING PROSE -- Forms of the Supernatural in Narrative -- The Prose of the World -- Excess and History in Hugo’s Ninety-three -- Minor Characters -- Toward a Database of Novelistic Topoi -- 2.3. THEMES, FIGURES -- The Fiction of Bourgeois Morality and the Paradox of Individualism -- The Death of Lucien de Rubempré -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Social Climber: Upward Mobility in the Novel -- A Businessman in Love -- Readings: Narrating Politics -- Max Havelaar (Multatuli, 1860) -- The Tiger of Malaysia (Emilio Salgari, 1883–1884) -- Ah Q (Lu Hsün, 1921–1922) -- Cement (Fedor Gladkov, 1925) -- A Private Matter (Beppe Fenoglio, 1963) -- Arrow of God (Chinua Achebe, 1964) -- Conversation in the Cathedral (Mario Vargas Llosa, 1969) -- The Aesthetics of Resistance (Peter Weiss, 1975–1981) -- Readings: The Sacrifice of the Heroine -- Aloisa and Melliora (Love in Excess, Eliza Haywood, 1719–1720) -- Natasha and Hélène (War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy, 1863–1869) -- Nana (Nana, Émile Zola, 1880) -- (Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy, 1891) -- Elsie (The Dangerous Age, Karin Michaëlis, 1910) -- 2.4. SPACE AND STORY -- Over-writing as Un-writing: Descriptions, World-Making, and Novelistic Time -- The Roads of the Novel -- The Chronotopes of the Sea -- Torn Space: James Joyce’s Ulysses -- Readings: The New Metropolis -- Shanghai (Midnight, Mao Dun, 1932) -- Buenos Aires (Adán Buenosayres, Leopoldo Marechal, 1948) -- Lagos (People of the City, Cyprian Ekwensi, 1954) -- Cairo (The Cairo Trilogy, Naguib Mahfouz, 1956–1957) -- Havana (Three Trapped Tigers, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, 1967) -- Bombay (Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie, 1981) -- Istanbul (The Black Book, Orhan Pamuk, 1990) -- 2.5. UNCERTAIN BOUNDARIES -- Form and Chance: The German Novella -- Inconceivable History: Storytelling as Hyperphasia and Disavowal -- Innovation: Notes on Nihilism and the Aesthetics of the Novel -- Narrative Literature in the Turing Universe -- Readings: A Century of Experiments -- The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Rainer Maria Rilke, 1910) -- The Making of Americans (Gertrude Stein, 1925) -- Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf, 1925) -- Macunaíma (Mário de Andrade, 1928) -- Finnegans Wake (James Joyce, 1939) -- Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable (Samuel Beckett, 1951–1953) -- Hopscotch (Julio Cortázar, 1963) -- Gravity’s Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon, 1973) -- Contributors -- Author Index -- Works Cited Index