Understanding the Novel: A Theoretical Overview reiterates that the novel remains a relevant and pertinent concept and that any reckoning with the form has to integrally involve its character as a flexible and incorporative genre. This book revisits and collates theoretical debates over the generic fundamentals of the novel--the rise of the novel, its changing relation to realism, its ups and downs within the literary canon, its constant rejuvenation as a 'novel' or new form and successive pronouncements of it's 'death', as ...
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Understanding the Novel: A Theoretical Overview reiterates that the novel remains a relevant and pertinent concept and that any reckoning with the form has to integrally involve its character as a flexible and incorporative genre. This book revisits and collates theoretical debates over the generic fundamentals of the novel--the rise of the novel, its changing relation to realism, its ups and downs within the literary canon, its constant rejuvenation as a 'novel' or new form and successive pronouncements of it's 'death', as well as the broad contours of generic incorporations in the course of its development.
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