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Nearly as global in its ambition and sweep as its subject, Franco Moretti's "The Novel" is a watershed event in the understanding of the first truly planetary literary form. A translated selection from the epic five-volume Italian Il Romanzo (2001-2003), "The Novel"'s two volumes are a unified multiauthored reference work, containing more than one hundred specially commissioned essays by leading contemporary critics from around the world. Providing the first international comparative reassessment of the novel, these essential volumes reveal the form in unprecedented depth and breadth - as a great cultural, social, and human phenomenon that stretches from the ancient Greeks to today, where modernity itself is unimaginable without the genre. By viewing the novel as much more than an aesthetic form, this landmark collection demonstrates how the genre has transformed human emotions and behavior, and the very perception of reality. Historical, statistical, and formal analyses show the novel as a complex literary system, in which new forms proliferate in every period and place. "Volume 1: History, Geography, and Culture", looks at the novel mostly from the outside, treating the transition from oral to written storytelling and the rise of narrative and fictionality, and covering the ancient Greek novel, the novel in premodern China, the early Spanish novel, and much else, including readings of novels from around the world. These books will be essential reading for all students and scholars of literature.

Table of Contents:
On The Novel ix 1.1. A STRUGGLE FOR SPACE 1 From Oral to Written: An Anthropological Breakthrough in Storytelling by JACK GOODY 3 The Control of the Imagination and the Novel by LUIZ COSTA LIMA 37 Historiography and Fiction in Chinese Culture by HENRY Y. H. ZHAO 69 The Novel on Trial by WALTER SITI 94 1.2. P OLYGENESIS The Ancient Greek Novel: A Single Model or a Plurality of Forms? by TOMAS HAGG 125 Medieval French Romance by ALBERTO VARVARO 156 The Novel in Premodern China by ANDREW H. PLAKS 181 Critical Apparatus: The Semantic Field of "Narrative" Stefano Levi Della Torre, Midrash 217 Maurizio Bettini, Mythos/Fabula 225 Adriana Boscaro, Monogatari 241 Judith T. Zeitlin, Xiaoshuo 249 Abdelfattah Kilito, Qisa 262 Piero Boitani, Romance 269 Maria Di Salvo, Povest' 283 1.3. THE EUROPEAN ACCELERATION The Short, Happy Life of the Novel in Spain by JOAN RAMON RESINA 291 313 Forms of Popular Narrative in France and England: 1700-1900 by DANIEL COU{{Eacute}}GNAS The Rise of Fictionality by CATHERINE GALLAGHER 336 Serious Century by FRANCO MORETTI 364 The Ruse of the Russian Novel by WILLIAM MILLS TODD III 401 1.4. THE CIRCLE WIDENS Critical Apparatus: The Market for Novels-Some Statistical Profiles James Raven, Britain, 1750-1830 429 John Austin, United States, 1780-1850 455 Giovanni Ragone, Italy, 1815-1870 466 Elisa Marti-Lopez and Mario Santana, Spain, 1843-1900 479 Priya Joshi, India, 1850-1900 495 Jonathan Zwicker, Japan, 1850-1900 509 Wendy Griswold, Nigeria, 1950-2000 521 The Sign of the Voice: Orality and Writing in the United States by ALESSANDRO PORTELLI 531 The Long Nineteenth Century of the Japanese Novel by JONATHAN ZWICKER 553 Epic and Novel in India by MEENAKSHI MUKHERJEE 596 The Novel of a Continent: Latin America by GERALD MARTIN 632 The Extroverted African Novel by EILEEN JULIEN 667 1.5. TOWARD WORLD LITERATURE The Novelists' International by MICHAEL DENNING 703 Fecundities of the Unexpected: Magical Realism, Narrative, and History by ATO QUAYSON 726 Readings: Traditions in Contact Abdelfattah Kilito, Al-Saq 'ala al-saq f im a huwa al-Faryaq (Ahmad Faris Shidya q, Paris, 1855) 759 Norma Field, Drifting Clouds (Futabatei Shimei, Japan, 1887-1889) 766 Jale Parla, A Carriage Affair (Recaizade Mahmut Ekrem, Turkey, 1896) 775 Jongyon Hwang, The Heartless (Yi Kwangsu, Korea, 1917) 781 M. Keith Booker, Chaka (Thomas Mofolo, South Africa, 1925) 786 M. R. Ghanoonparvar, The Blind Owl (Sadeq Hedayat, Iran, 1941) 794 Readings: Americas Alessandro Portelli, Uncle Tom's Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe, United States, 1852) 805 Roberto Schwarz, Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas ( J. M. Machado de Assis, Brazil, 1880) 816 Jonathan Arac, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain, United States, 1884) 841 Ernesto Franco, Pedro Paramo ( Juan Rulfo, Mexico, 1955) 855 Stephanie Merrim, Grande Sertao: Veredas ( Joao Guimaraes Rosa, Brazil, 1956) 862 Jose Miguel Oviedo, The Death of Artemio Cruz (Carlos Fuentes, Mexico, 1962) 870 Clarisse Zimra, Lone Sun (Daniel Maximin, Guadeloupe, 1981) 876 Alessandro Portelli, Beloved (Toni Morrison, United States, 1987) 886 Contributors 893 Author Index 897 Works Cited Index 907


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780691049472
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Princeton University Press
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 928
  • Weight: 1361 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0691049475
  • Publisher Date: 11 Jun 2006
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: History, Geography, and Culture
  • Width: 152 mm


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