The novel : an alternative history : beginnings to 1600 /
Encyclopedic in scope and heroically audacious, The Novel: An Alternative History is the first attempt in over a century to tell the complete story of our most popular literary form. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the novel did not originate in 18th-century England, nor even with Don Quixote, but...
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The novel : |b an alternative history : beginnings to 1600 / |c Steven Moore. |
| 260 | |a New York : |b Continuum, |c c2010. | ||
| 300 | |a vi, 698 p. ; |c 24 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 653-679) and indexes. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a The ancient novel: Egyptian ; Mesopotamian ; Hebrew ; Greek ; Roman ; Christian -- The medieval novel: Irish ; Icelandic ; Byzantine ; Jewish ; Arthurian -- The Renaissance novel: Italian ; Spanish ; French ; English -- The Mesoamerican novel -- The Eastern novel: Indian ; Tibetan ; Arabic ; Persian -- The Far Eastern novel: Japanese ; Chinese. | |
| 520 | 3 | |a Encyclopedic in scope and heroically audacious, The Novel: An Alternative History is the first attempt in over a century to tell the complete story of our most popular literary form. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the novel did not originate in 18th-century England, nor even with Don Quixote, but is coeval with civilization itself. After a pugnacious introduction, in which Moore defends innovative, demanding novelists against their conservative critics, the book relaxes into a world tour of the premodern novel, beginning in ancient Egypt and ending in 16th-century China, with many exotic ports-of-call: Greek romances; Roman satires; medieval Sanskrit novels narrated by parrots; Byzantine erotic thrillers; 5000-page Arabian adventure novels; Icelandic sagas; delicate Persian novels in verse; Japanese war stories; even Mayan graphic novels. Throughout, Moore celebrates the innovators in fiction, tracing a continuum between these premodern experimentalists and their postmodern progeny. Irreverent, iconoclastic, informative, entertaining The Novel: An Alternative History is a landmark in literary criticism that will encourage readers to rethink the novel. | |
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