| Description |
1 online resource (306 pages) |
| Series |
Reading the Novel |
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Reading the novel.
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| Contents |
Reading the European Novel to 1900; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Introduction: The Odyssey of Reading Novels ; Beginnings; The Function of Literature: What Literature Is and Does; Recurring Themes; The Readers Odyssey; Memory; Sense-Making; Interpretive History; Cognitive Poetics; The Function of Criticism and My Critical Approach; An Aspect of Realism: The Author in the Text; Reading Translations; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 2 Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote (1605, 1615): Inventing the Novel; Introduction; Cervantes Digressive Imagination; The Don and Sancho Panza as Characters |
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Cervantes and the Form of the NovelHistorical and Philosophic Implications; Cervantes Narrators; Part One: The 1605 Text; Don Quixotes Character and Psyche in Part One: Good Intentions, Bad Results; Part Two: The 1615 Book; Don Quixotes Sexuality in Part Two; The Role and Function of the Duke and Duchess in Part Two; Don Quixotes Final Renunciation; Conclusion to Part Two; Don Quixote as a Long Read; Afterword; Notes; Chapter 3 Reading Stendhal's The Red and the Black (1830) and The Charterhouse of Parma (1839): Character and Caricature |
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1. "Perhaps": The Red and the Black as Psychological Novel and Political AnatomyIntroduction; The Red and the Blacks Historical Context; Stendhals Artistry; Self-Delusion: Is Julien Who He Thinks He Is?; Narrative Strategy and the Function of the Narrator in The Red and the Black; The Ending of The Red and the Black; Stendhals Originality; 2. The Charterhouse of Parma: Narrative as Energy, Reading as Play; Politics and History; What Kind of Fiction is The Charterhouse of Parma?; Plot and Structure; Fabrizio; Sex and Love; Love and Sex; Napoleon as Metaphor; The Narrator; Conclusion; Notes |
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Chapter 4 Predatory Behavior in Balzac's Père Goriot (1835): Paris as a Trope for Moral CannibalismIntroducing Balzac: Realist and Modernist; Paris; Balzacs Narrator; The Opening; Amorality in Père Goriot; Eugène de Rastignac, Goriot, and the Family Manqué; The Ending of Père Goriot; Notes; Chapter 5 Flaubert's Madame Bovary (1857) and Sentimental Education (1869): The Aesthetic Novel; 1. Madame Bovary: Literary Form Examining Provincial Manners and Desire; Introduction; Flauberts Satire of Provincial Behavior; What Does Emma Want and Need?; Charles Bovary; Structure |
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The Function of the NarratorFlauberts Values; Flaubert as Artist; Madame Bovary: Final Thoughts; 2. Briefly Discussing the Puzzles of Sentimental Education; Introduction; Frédéric Moreau; Homosexuality and Decadence in Sentimental Education; Style as Decadence; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 6 Reading Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground (1864) and Crime and Punishment (1866); 1. Notes from Underground: The Piano Plays Back; Essentials for Understanding Dostoevsky: Christianity and the Enlightenment; Notes from Underground: Challenging Enlightenment Assumptions; Prelude to Modernism; The Opening |
| Summary |
Offers a close reading of individual texts with attention to their cultural and canonical contextExamines the history and evolution of the novel to 1900 and defines each author's aesthetic, cultural, political, and historical significanceCovers essential and frequently taught masterworks up to 1900, including Cervantes' Don Quixote; Tolstoy's War and Peace and Anna Karenina; Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment, and The Brothers Karamazov; Stendhal's The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma; Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Sentimental Education; Balzac's Pere Gorio |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Fiction -- History and criticism.
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Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781118604816 |
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1118604814 |
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9781444330472 |
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1444330470 |
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9781322308081 |
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132230808X |
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