Before Fiction : The Ancien Régime of the Novel [1 ed.] 9780812205107, 9780812243550

Fiction has become nearly synonymous with literature itself, as if Homer and Dante and Pynchon were all engaged in the s

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Before Fiction : The Ancien Régime of the Novel [1 ed.]
9780812205107, 9780812243550

Before Fiction asks why so many early novelists pretended their novels were literally true when no one believed them. Fo

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“After Auschwitz to write even a single poem is barbaric.” The Conflagration of Community challenges Theodor Adorno’s fa

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A radical intervention into critical debates over the status of sensation within modernist literature Offers novel and i

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From a master of contemporary fiction, a tale of bohemian youth on the make in Mexico City Two young poets, Jan and Remo

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Altrameda has served as a lab assistant and friend to the Tinkerer, her kind-hearted but perplexing inventor, for many y

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Literary histories of the novel tend to assume that religion naturally gives way to secularism, with the novel usurping

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Literary histories of the novel tend to assume that religion naturally gives way to secularism, with the novel usurping

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Greek fiction has been attracting greater attention as a result of new approaches associated with gender studies, narrat

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Focusing on canonical works by Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, and others, this book explains the relatio

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The rise of the novel paradigm—and the underlying homology between the rise of a bourgeois middle class and the coming o

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