Thinking Narratively : : Between Novel-Essay and Narrative Essay / / ed. by Massimo Fusillo, Gianluigi Simonetti, Lorenzo Marchese.

• MitwirkendeR: Aubry-Morici, Marine,; Cangiano, Mimmo,; Cavalloro, Valeria,; Cucchi, Silvia,; Fusillo, Massimo,; Marchese, Lorenzo,; Palumbo Mosca, Raffaello,; Pecoraro, Francesco,; Simonetti, Gianluigi,; Toffoli, Lara,
• HerausgeberIn: Fusillo, Massimo,; Marchese, Lorenzo,; Simonetti, Gianluigi,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Transcodification: Arts, Languages and Media
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VI, 126 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Introduction --; Disenchanting the World: A Reflection on the Common Ground Between the Novel Form and the Essay --; An Irreconcilable Discrepancy: Sketching a Theory of the Novel-essay --; The Totality that Does not Die: On the early Twentieth-century Novel-essay and two Rearticulations of Bourgeois Culture --; Thinking and Narrating Eroticism in Italy in the Sixties --; Between the “Roman-Essay” and the “Essay-Roman”: Jean Améry’s Lefeu oder Der Abbruch and W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz --; On the Relationship between Novel-essay and Science-fiction --; The Essayification of Narrative Forms in the 21st Century: a Comparative Study --; The Trunk and the Branches --; About the Authors --; Index of Persons --; Index of Subjects
• ISBN: 3110764180
• ISSN: 2702-7732
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Massimo Fusillo, Gianluigi Simonetti, Lorenzo Marchese.

What is the connection between philosophical enquiries and storytelling in contemporary narrative? Is it possible to outline some features of a so-called philosophical fiction in Western literature throughout the last two centuries? This book aims to provide a plural answer, hosting extensive essays by seven young researchers coming from different fields (Theory of literature, German, American, Russian and Italian contemporary literature, history and evolution of the essayistic form). A short The volume is addressed to all those with a strong interest in both evolution of philosophical speech and history of the novel and has a strong vocation to promote interdisciplinarity in literary studies.