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Theory of the Novel.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (403 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674974029
Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 809.3
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Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Translator's Note -- Introduction: Truth and Literature -- Why the Novel Matters -- Books of Life -- Games of Truth -- Literature and Reality -- What Is the Novel? -- Chapter One: A Theory of Narrative -- People and Leaves -- Mimesis and Concept -- The Hidden Contents of Mimesis -- The Confines of Mimesis -- Between Nothingness and Ideas: The Mimetic Discontinuity -- Stories -- Narrative and Existential Analytics -- Narrators -- Levels of Reality -- Being in the World -- Chapter Two: The Origin of the Novel -- Historical Semantics -- The Question of Origins -- The First Corpus -- Symbolic Thresholds: 1550 -- Symbolic Thresholds: 1670 -- The Territory of the Romance -- The Territory of the Novel -- The Rise of the Novel -- Chapter Three: The Novel and the Literature of the Ancien Régime -- The Dialectic of Continuity and Change -- A Cohesive Epoch -- Classicism and the Separation of Styles -- Aesthetic Platonism -- Moralism and Allegory -- Moralistic Apparatuses, Poetic Justice, Exemplary Heroes -- The Legitimization of the Romance -- The Legitimization of the Novel -- Chapter Four: The Book of Particular Life -- The Romance and Private Aims -- Suspense, Entrelacement, and the Romanesque -- The History of Private Lives -- A Discursive Gap -- The Pathos of Proximity -- The Interesting -- The Novel's Readership -- Particular Life -- National Differences: France and England -- Chapter Five: The Birth of the Modern Novel -- Freedom from the Rules of Style -- Freedom from Allegory and Morality -- Moralism, Empathy, and Observation -- A New Conceptual Ether -- The Weight of Novels -- The Expansion of the Narratable World -- The Middle Station of Life -- The Serious Mimesis of Everyday Life -- The World of Prose -- Center and Periphery -- Narrative Democracy -- Chapter Six: The Nineteenth-Century Paradigm.
Abstractions -- Realisms -- The Frameworks of the Nineteenth-Century Paradigm -- The Figurative Novel and Its Theatrical Model -- The Discovery of the Environment -- Dependent Individuals -- The Melodramatic Model -- The Significance of the Melodramatic Novel -- The Romance in the Novel, Special Characters -- The Novel of Personal Destinies -- A Map of the Nineteenth-Century Paradigm -- Chapter Seven: The Transition to Modernism -- The Second Phase of Nineteenth-Century Realism -- Realism without Melodrama -- Historical Stations -- New Narrators -- New Plots -- New Characters -- Three Turning Points -- Short Stories and Epiphanies -- Worlds Apart -- The Modern Forms of the Romance -- The Sense of a Transformation -- Chapter Eight: On Contemporary Fiction -- After Modernism -- The Decline of the New -- A Multiple Archipelago -- Conclusion: A Theory of the Novel -- The Genre of Particularity -- Relativism and Perspectivism -- An Analytics of Existence -- Discursive Transformations -- The Design of This Book -- On the Present State of Things -- 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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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Translator's Note -- Introduction: Truth and Literature -- Why the Novel Matters -- Books of Life -- Games of Truth -- Literature and Reality -- What Is the Novel? -- Chapter One: A Theory of Narrative -- People and Leaves -- Mimesis and Concept -- The Hidden Contents of Mimesis -- The Confines of Mimesis -- Between Nothingness and Ideas: The Mimetic Discontinuity -- Stories -- Narrative and Existential Analytics -- Narrators -- Levels of Reality -- Being in the World -- Chapter Two: The Origin of the Novel -- Historical Semantics -- The Question of Origins -- The First Corpus -- Symbolic Thresholds: 1550 -- Symbolic Thresholds: 1670 -- The Territory of the Romance -- The Territory of the Novel -- The Rise of the Novel -- Chapter Three: The Novel and the Literature of the Ancien Régime -- The Dialectic of Continuity and Change -- A Cohesive Epoch -- Classicism and the Separation of Styles -- Aesthetic Platonism -- Moralism and Allegory -- Moralistic Apparatuses, Poetic Justice, Exemplary Heroes -- The Legitimization of the Romance -- The Legitimization of the Novel -- Chapter Four: The Book of Particular Life -- The Romance and Private Aims -- Suspense, Entrelacement, and the Romanesque -- The History of Private Lives -- A Discursive Gap -- The Pathos of Proximity -- The Interesting -- The Novel's Readership -- Particular Life -- National Differences: France and England -- Chapter Five: The Birth of the Modern Novel -- Freedom from the Rules of Style -- Freedom from Allegory and Morality -- Moralism, Empathy, and Observation -- A New Conceptual Ether -- The Weight of Novels -- The Expansion of the Narratable World -- The Middle Station of Life -- The Serious Mimesis of Everyday Life -- The World of Prose -- Center and Periphery -- Narrative Democracy -- Chapter Six: The Nineteenth-Century Paradigm.

Abstractions -- Realisms -- The Frameworks of the Nineteenth-Century Paradigm -- The Figurative Novel and Its Theatrical Model -- The Discovery of the Environment -- Dependent Individuals -- The Melodramatic Model -- The Significance of the Melodramatic Novel -- The Romance in the Novel, Special Characters -- The Novel of Personal Destinies -- A Map of the Nineteenth-Century Paradigm -- Chapter Seven: The Transition to Modernism -- The Second Phase of Nineteenth-Century Realism -- Realism without Melodrama -- Historical Stations -- New Narrators -- New Plots -- New Characters -- Three Turning Points -- Short Stories and Epiphanies -- Worlds Apart -- The Modern Forms of the Romance -- The Sense of a Transformation -- Chapter Eight: On Contemporary Fiction -- After Modernism -- The Decline of the New -- A Multiple Archipelago -- Conclusion: A Theory of the Novel -- The Genre of Particularity -- Relativism and Perspectivism -- An Analytics of Existence -- Discursive Transformations -- The Design of This Book -- On the Present State of Things -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

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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