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Theory of the Novel / Guido Mazzoni.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (378 p.) : 1 line illustrationContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674974029
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809.3 23
LOC classification:
  • PN3331 .M2813 2017
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Translator’s Note -- Introduction: Truth and Literature -- ONE: A Theory of Narrative -- TWO: The Origin of the Novel -- THREE: The Novel and the Literature of the Ancien Régime -- FOUR: The Book of Particular Life -- FIVE: The Birth of the Modern Novel -- SIX: The Nineteenth- Century Paradigm -- SEVEN: The Transition to Modernism -- EIGHT: On Contemporary Fiction -- Conclusion: A Theory of the Novel -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary: In his theory of the novel, Guido Mazzoni explains that novels consist of stories told in any way whatsoever about the experiences of ordinary men and women who exist as contingent beings within time and space. Novels allow readers to step into other lives and other versions of truth, each a small, local world, absolute in its particularity.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Translator’s Note -- Introduction: Truth and Literature -- ONE: A Theory of Narrative -- TWO: The Origin of the Novel -- THREE: The Novel and the Literature of the Ancien Régime -- FOUR: The Book of Particular Life -- FIVE: The Birth of the Modern Novel -- SIX: The Nineteenth- Century Paradigm -- SEVEN: The Transition to Modernism -- EIGHT: On Contemporary Fiction -- Conclusion: A Theory of the Novel -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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In his theory of the novel, Guido Mazzoni explains that novels consist of stories told in any way whatsoever about the experiences of ordinary men and women who exist as contingent beings within time and space. Novels allow readers to step into other lives and other versions of truth, each a small, local world, absolute in its particularity.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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