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...

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