Forms of Modernity : : Don Quixote and Modern Theories of the Novel / / Rachel Schmidt.

It's a critical cliché that Cervantes' Don Quixote is the first modern novel, but this distinction raises two fundamental questions. First, how does one define a novel? And second, what is the relationship between this genre and understandings of modernity? In Forms of Modernity, Rachel Sc...

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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]
©2011
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations for Cited Material
  • Note on Translations and Quotations
  • 1. Don Quixote and the Problem of Modernity
  • 2. Arabesques and the Modern Novel: Friedrich Schlegel's Interpretation of Don Quixote
  • 3. The Emptiness of the Arabesque: Georg Lukács's Theory of the Novel
  • 4. Ideas and Forms:Hermann Cohen's Novelistics
  • 5. The Poetics of Resuscitation: Unamuno's Anti-Novelistics
  • 6. Form Foreshortened: Ortega y Gasset's Meditations on Don Quixote
  • 7. Don Quixote in Bakhtin
  • 8. Revolutions and the Novel
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index