Time and the Novel : : The Genealogical Imperative / / Patricia Drechsel Tobin.

Formalist criticism of the modern novel has concentrated on its spatial aspects. Patricia Tobin focuses, instead, on the modern novel's temporal structure. She notes that the "genealogical imperative" that dominated the nineteenth-century novel, in which one event gave birth to anothe...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]
©1979
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 1560
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Physical Description:1 online resource (250 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • INTRODUCTION. Whence the Novel: The Genealogical Imperative
  • 1. Subverting the Father: Some Nineteenth-Century Precursors
  • 2. "Links in a Chain": Thomas Mann, Bnddenbrooks
  • 3. The Cycle Dance: D. H. Lawrence, The Rainbow
  • 4. "The Shadowy Attenuation of Time": William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!
  • 5. "A Colored Spiral in a Ball of Glass": "Vladimir Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
  • 6. "Everything Is Known": Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
  • CONCLUSION. Whither the Novel: The Wager on Surface
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Backmatter