Theory Of The Novel Guido Mazzoni by Guido Mazzoni 9780674333727, 0674333721 instant download after payment.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Translator's Note -- Introduction: Truth and Literature -- Why the Novel Matters -- Books of Life -- Games of Truth -- Literature and Reality -- What Is the Novel? -- Chapter One: A Theory of Narrative -- People and Leaves -- Mimesis and Concept -- The Hidden Contents of Mimesis -- The Confines of Mimesis -- Between Nothingness and Ideas: The Mimetic Discontinuity -- Stories -- Narrative and Existential Analytics -- Narrators -- Levels of Reality -- Being in the World -- Chapter Two: The Origin of the Novel -- Historical Semantics -- The Question of Origins -- The First Corpus -- Symbolic Thresholds: 1550 -- Symbolic Thresholds: 1670 -- The Territory of the Romance -- The Territory of the Novel -- The Rise of the Novel -- Chapter Three: The Novel and the Literature of the Ancien Régime -- The Dialectic of Continuity and Change -- A Cohesive Epoch -- Classicism and the Separation of Styles -- Aesthetic Platonism -- Moralism and Allegory -- Moralistic Apparatuses, Poetic Justice, Exemplary Heroes -- The Legitimization of the Romance -- The Legitimization of the Novel -- Chapter Four: The Book of Particular Life -- The Romance and Private Aims -- Suspense, Entrelacement, and the Romanesque -- The History of Private Lives -- A Discursive Gap -- The Pathos of Proximity -- The Interesting -- The Novel's Readership -- Particular Life -- National Differences: France and England -- Chapter Five: The Birth of the Modern Novel -- Freedom from the Rules of Style -- Freedom from Allegory and Morality -- Moralism, Empathy, and Observation -- A New Conceptual Ether -- The Weight of Novels -- The Expansion of the Narratable World -- The Middle Station of Life -- The Serious Mimesis of Everyday Life -- The World of Prose -- Center and Periphery -- Narrative Democracy -- Chapter Six: The Nineteenth-Century Paradigm
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