Genre and Extravagance in the Novel
Lower Frequencies
Seiten
2021
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-289776-3 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-289776-3 (ISBN)
Examines the form of the novel, capaciously defined and across its history, exploring the interplay of conformity and experimentation in classic and outlier examples of the genre, with a focus on Joseph Conrad, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf.
This book addresses an anomaly in the novel as genre: the generic promise to readers--that "reading a novel" is a familiar and repeatable experience--is challenged by the extravagant exceptions to this rule. Furthermore, these exceptions (such as Moby-Dick, Ulysses, or To the Lighthouse) are sui generis, hybrid concoctions that cannot be said to be typical novels. The novel, then, as literary form, succeeds by extravagantly disregarding or even disavowing the protocols of its own genre. Examining a number of famous examples from Don Quixote to Nostromo, this book offers an anatomy of exceptions that illustrate the structural role of their exceptionality for the prestige of the novel as literary form.
This book addresses an anomaly in the novel as genre: the generic promise to readers--that "reading a novel" is a familiar and repeatable experience--is challenged by the extravagant exceptions to this rule. Furthermore, these exceptions (such as Moby-Dick, Ulysses, or To the Lighthouse) are sui generis, hybrid concoctions that cannot be said to be typical novels. The novel, then, as literary form, succeeds by extravagantly disregarding or even disavowing the protocols of its own genre. Examining a number of famous examples from Don Quixote to Nostromo, this book offers an anatomy of exceptions that illustrate the structural role of their exceptionality for the prestige of the novel as literary form.
Jed Rasula is Helen S. Lanier Distinguished Professor at the University of Georgia. He is author of nine scholarly books and three books of poetry, as well as co-editor of two anthologies. His research focuses on modernism across the arts, jazz history, modern and contemporary poetry, eco-poetics, and esoteric language practices.
Preface
1: Genre and Extravagance
2: When the Exception is the Rule
3: Textual Indigence in the Archive
4: Fairy Tale Epic
5: Vessels of Consciousness
6: Armed With Madness
7: Ruminant Curiosity
8: Nietzsche in the Nursery
Erscheinungsdatum | 20.09.2021 |
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Zusatzinfo | 2 Illustrations |
Verlagsort | Oxford |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 165 x 240 mm |
Gewicht | 544 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-289776-4 / 0192897764 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-289776-3 / 9780192897763 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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