The lives of the novel a history

This is a bold and original original history of the novel from ancient Greece to the vibrant world of contemporary fiction. In this wide-ranging survey, Thomas Pavel argues that the driving force behind the novel's evolution has been a rivalry between stories that idealize human behavior and th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Pavel, Thomas G., 1941- (-)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton ; and Oxford : Princeton University Press 2015
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Strong souls, degrees of perfection
  • Helpless souls, tricksters, and rascalsod
  • The center of action: elegiac stories and novellas
  • An isolated realm, hesitant lovers: the pastoral
  • Don Quixote and the history of the novel
  • The new idealism
  • Resistance to new idealism
  • Love: romantic and impossible
  • Novels and society
  • From sensitive hearts to enigmatic psyches
  • Syntheses, high points
  • Loners in a strange world.