The world and the book : a study of modern fiction

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The world and the book : a study of modern fiction

Gabriel Josipovici

Macmillan, 1994

3rd ed

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This text questions whether the ease by which modern art has been assimilated, perhaps suggests that its radical and subversive nature has not been recognised. The book deals primarily with one branch of modern art - the modern novel - in the belief that the problems we encounter in our response to fiction are typical of those raised by any art. Following the example of the great moderns - Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot - the book questions both the foundations of fiction and the norms of the western artistic tradition, that is, the tradition of realism developed in the Renaissance and 17th century. In the process it analyzes the work of Chaucer, Rabelais, Swift and Hawthorne, as well as that of Proust, Nabakov, Bellow and Golding, showing that these constitute what might well be called a tradition of the anti-novel, of fiction which defines itself by opposition to the naive realism of the traditional novel. The book is not intended as literary criticism in the ordinary sense, nor as a book of aesthetics, but as an exploration in discursive terms of some of the author's own central concerns as a writer, and a celebration of some of the authors he most admires. Gabriel Josipovici has al

目次

Acknowledgements - Notes on the Translations - Preface to the Third Edition - Preface to the Second Edition - Preface to the First Edition - Proust: A Voice in Search of Itself - The World as a Book - Chaucer: 'The Teller and the Tale' - Rabelais: Language and Laughter - Some Thoughts on the Rise of the Novel - Hawthorne: Allegory and Compulsion - Modernism and Romanticism - Lolita: Parody and the Pursuit of Beauty - Herzog: Freedom and Wit - Golding: The Hidden Source - Surfaces and Structures - The World and the Book - Index

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA22933471
  • ISBN
    • 0333609018
    • 0333609026
  • 出版国コード
    uk
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Basingstoke ; London
  • ページ数/冊数
    xxvi, 318 p.
  • 大きさ
    23 cm
  • 分類
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