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TABLE OF CONTENTS: On The Novel ix 2.1. THE LONG DURATION The Novel in Search of Itself: A Historical Morphology by THOMAS PAVEL 3 Epic, Novel by MASSIMO FUSILLO 32 The Poetry of Mediocrity by SYLVIE THOREL-CAILLETEAU 64 The Experiments of Time: Providence and Realism by FREDRIC JAMESON 95 Readings: Prototypes Massimo Fusillo, Aethiopika (Heliodorus, Third or Fourth Century) 131 2.2. WRITING PROSE Forms of the Supernatural in Narrative by FRANCESCO ORLANDO 207 The Prose of the World by MICHAL PELED GINSBURG AND LORRI G. NANDREA 244 Excess and History in Hugo's Ninety-three by UMBERTO ECO 274 Minor Characters by ALEX WOLOCH 295 324 Toward a Database of Novelistic Topoi by NATHALIE FERRAND 324 2.3. THEMES, FIGURES The Fiction of Bourgeois Morality and the Paradox of Individualism by NANCY ARMSTRONG 349 The Death of Lucien de Rubempré by A. S. BYATT 389 A Portrait of the Artist as a Social Climber: Upward Mobility in the Novel by BRUCE ROBBINS 409 A Businessman in Love by FREDRIC JAMESON 436 Readings: Narrating Politics Benedict Anderson, Max Havelaar (Multatuli, 1860) 449 Readings: The Sacrifice of the Heroine April Alliston, Aloisa and Melliora (Love in Excess, Eliza Haywood, 1719-1720) 515 2.4. S PACE AND STORY Over-writing as Un-writing: Descriptions, World-Making, and Novelistic Time by MIEKE BAL 571 The Roads of the Novel by HANS ULRICH GUMBRECHT 611 The Chronotopes of the Sea by MARGARET COHEN 647 667 Torn Space: James Joyce's Ulysses by PHILIP FISHER 667 Readings: The New Metropolis Leo Ou-fan Lee, Shanghai (Midnight, Mao Dun, 1932) 687 2.5. UNCERTAIN BOUNDARIES Form and Chance: The German Novella by ANDREAS GAILUS 739 Inconceivable History: Storytelling as Hyperphasia and Disavowal by FRANCIS MULHERN 777 Innovation: Notes on Nihilism and the Aesthetics of the Novel by JOHN BRENKMAN 808 Narrative Literature in the Turing Universe by ESPEN AARSETH 839 Readings: A Century of Experiments 871 Andreina Lavagetto, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Rainer Maria Rilke, 1910) 871 Contributors 933 Author Index 937 Works Cited Index 944 File created: 4/23/2008 | |
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