Twentieth-century historians and critics defending the novel have emphasized its role as superseding something else, as a sort of legitimate usurper that deposed the Epic, a replacement of myth, or religious narrative. To say that the Age of Early Christianity was really also the Age of the Novel rumples such historical tidiness--but so it was. From the outset of her discussion, Doody rejects the conventional Anglo-Saxon distinction between Romance and Novel. This eighteenth-century distinction, she maintains, served both ...
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Twentieth-century historians and critics defending the novel have emphasized its role as superseding something else, as a sort of legitimate usurper that deposed the Epic, a replacement of myth, or religious narrative. To say that the Age of Early Christianity was really also the Age of the Novel rumples such historical tidiness--but so it was. From the outset of her discussion, Doody rejects the conventional Anglo-Saxon distinction between Romance and Novel. This eighteenth-century distinction, she maintains, served both to keep the foreign--dark-skinned peoples, strange speakers, Muslims, and others--largely out of literature, and to obscure the diverse nature of the novel itself. This deeply informed and truly comparative work is staggering in its breadth. Doody treats not only recognized classics, but also works of usually unacknowledged subgenres--new readings of novels like The Pickwick Papers, Puddn'head Wilson, L'Assommoir, Death in Venice, and Beloved are accompanied by insights into Death on the Nile or The Wind in the Willows. Non-Western writers like Chinua Achebe and Witi Ihimaera are also included. In her last section, Doody goes on to show that Chinese and Japanese novels, early and late, bear a strong and not incidental affinity to their Western counterparts. Collectively, these readings offer the basis for a serious reassessment of the history and the nature of the novel. The True Story of the Novel marks the beginning of the twenty-first century's understanding of fiction and of culture. It is essential reading for anyone with an interest in literature.
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Very good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 580 p. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 94039574 Type of material Book Personal name Doody, Margaret Anne. Main title The true story of the novel / Margaret Anne Doody. Published/Created New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c1996. Description xx, 580 p., [24] p. of plates: ill. (some col. ); 24 cm. ISBN 0813521688 LC classification PN3355. D66 1996 LC Subjects Fiction--Technique. Fiction--History and criticism. Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. 531-553) and index. Dewey class no. 809.3
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Spine ends very gently rolled with corresponding crimps to the mylar covered jacket. Small damp stain to the upper 1/4" of the rear half of the spine head, wrapping around to a small portion of the rear board. Dampstain visible to the upper rear flap and the internal corresponding portion of the jacket's spine head. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.
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