Estranging the novel Poland, Ireland, and theories of world literature
"To develop a theory of world literature, this book demands that the theory of the novel can no longer ignore literary forms other than realism.For centuries, the standard account of the development of the novel focused on the rise of realism in English literature. Studies of early novels conne...
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Johns Hopkins University Press
[2021]
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| Zusammenfassung: | "To develop a theory of world literature, this book demands that the theory of the novel can no longer ignore literary forms other than realism.For centuries, the standard account of the development of the novel focused on the rise of realism in English literature. Studies of early novels connected the form to various aspects of British life across the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including the burgeoning middle class, the growth of individualism, and the emergence of democracy and the nation-state. But as the push for teaching and learning global literature grows, this narrative is insufficient for studying novel forms outside of a predominately English-speaking British and American realm.In Estranging the Novel, Katarzyna Bartoszynska explores how the emergence and growth of world literature studies has challenged the centrality of British fiction to theories of the novel's rise. She argues that a historicist approach frequently reinforces the realist paradigm that has cast other traditions as "minor," conceding a normative vision of the novel as it seeks to explain why historical forces produced different forms elsewhere. Recasting the standard narrative by looking at different novelistic literary forms, including the Gothic, travel writing, and queer fiction, Bartoszynska offers a compelling comparative study of Polish and Irish works published across the long nineteenth century that emphasize fictionality, or the problem of world-building in literature.Reading works by Ignacy Krasicki, Jan Potocki, Narcyza Zmichowska, and Witold Gombrowicz alongside others by Jonathan Swift, Charles Maturin, Oscar Wilde, and Samuel Beckett, Bartoszynska shows that the history of the novel's rise demands a more capacious and rigorous approach to form as well as a reconceptualization of the relationship between fiction and its cultural contexts [...]." |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [161]-177 Index Acknowledgments; Introduction: Unreal Histories; 1. The Problem with Happily Ever After: Swift and Krasicki; 2. The Terror of Worlds Unfolding: Potocki and Maturin; 3. Queer Tales and Seductive Paintings: Zmichowska and Wilde; 4. Impossibly Free: Gombrowicz and Beckett; Conclusion: Toward a "Weak" Theory of the Novel ; Notes |
| Beschreibung: | xi, 182 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9781421440644 9781421440651 |