The Development of the Novel. Literary Sources & Documents. [ 3 vols, complete set ]

Published by Helm Information, Mountfield, first edition, 2006, 2006

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3 vols, rexine, 8vo, 25 cm, xiv, 626 + vii, 608 + viii, 712 pp. A three-volume collection of writings on the development of the novel. The set comprises: Vol. 1. Origins through the eighteenth century: beginnings: Cervantes to Austen; Vol. 2. The nineteenth-century novel : the English novel: Scott to James; Vol. 3. The twentieth-century novel. From the editor's introduction - "In choosing the chapters and essays, beginning with the statements of the early novelists in volume one and concluding with contemporary critics in volume three, I have had two principal aims: (1) To represent chronologically the rise of the novel - primarily, though by no means exclusively, in Britain and the United States, and (2) To capture the dialectical debates by both critics and writers on the nature of the genre. Debates over realism versus romance and ethical versus the aesthetic dominate all three volumes. In addition to collecting both well-known and more obscure pieces by writers and critics, I felt it imperative to anthologize a number of significant theoretical essays. Specifically, I attempted to represent several of the various theoretical schools from the Marxist writings of Georg Lukács and Raymond Williams, to the poststructuralist work of Roland Barthes to the theories of narrative of M. M. Bakhtin, Tzvetan Todorov and Gerard Genette. These theorists, largely from France or Eastern Europe, reflect a heightened awareness of linguistics and narrative structure, an awareness generally less pronounced in England and the United States where interest has been dominated by questions of ethics and aesthetics." As new in publisher's card box.

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The Development of the Novel. Literary Sources & Documents. [ 3 vols, complete set ]
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McNees, E.J.
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Helm Information, Mountfield, first edition, 2006
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2006
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