Thinking Narratively : : Between Novel-Essay and Narrative Essay / / 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...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Transcodification: Arts, Languages and Media
Physical Description:1 online resource (VI, 126 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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