Novel: An Alternative History: Beginnings to 1600

ISBN-13: 9781441145475 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 704 str.

Steven Moore

Opis

A history - and controversial reappraisal - of the world's popular and innovative literary form. It attempts to tell the complete story of our popular literary form. It celebrates the innovators in fiction, tracing a continuum between the premodern experimentalists and their postmodern progeny.

Recenzje

The Novel: An Alternative History is a breathtaking achievement. Steve Moore isn't just incredibly well read, he's also funny, irreverent, argumentative and sometimes even downright mean. There's nothing dryly academic about his magnificent book--it's as personal as a love affair and just as thrilling. Like Edmund Wilson, Hugh Kenner or Randall Jarrell, Moore writes with real stylish dash, yet backs up what he says with the authority that only comes from vast knowledge. Ancient Greek novels, classics of Asian fiction, medieval romances, Renaissance allegories, Victorian triple-deckers, postmodern experiments--Moore knows them all. For readers, the result isn't just a history of the novel, it's also one of the all-time great literary carnival rides. Michael Dirda, author of Classics for Pleasure and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for criticism

Spis treści

Introduction: The Novel Novel Chapter 1: The Ancient Novel Egyptian Mesopotamian Hebrew Greek Roman Christian Chapter 2: The Medieval Novel Irish Icelandic Byzantine Jewish Arthurian Chapter 3: The Renaissance Novel Italian Spanish French English Bridge: The Mesoamerican Novel Chapter 4: The Eastern Novel Indian Tibetan Arabic Persian Chapter 5: The Far Eastern Novel Japanese Chinese Bibliography Chronological Index of Novels Discussed General Index

O autorze

Steven Moore (Ph.D. Rutgers, 1988) is the author of several books and essays on modern literature. From 1988 to 1996 he was managing editor of the Review of Contemporary Fiction/Dalkey Archive Press, and for decades he has reviewed books for a variety of journals and newspapers, principally The Washington Post. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.