Thinking Narratively

The series explores the complexity and the interconnections of arts and languages by merging, comparing and contrasting themes from different sources, methodologies or fields of studies. Its main results derive from the “Arts, Languages, and Media: Translation and Transcodification” project but it is also open to monographs and edited volumes arisen from different contexts and projects.

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What is the connection between philosophical enquiries and storytelling in contemporary narrative? Is it possible to outline some features of a so-called philosophical fiction in Western literature throughout the last two centuries? This book aims to provide a plural answer, hosting extensive essays by seven young researchers coming from different fields (Theory of literature, German, American, Russian and Italian contemporary literature, history and evolution of the essayistic form). A short The volume is addressed to all those with a strong interest in both evolution of philosophical speech and history of the novel and has a strong vocation to promote interdisciplinarity in literary studies.