Genre and Extravagance in the Novel : Lower Frequencies

Rasula, Jed

Oxford University Press（2021/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 256 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780192897763
• DDC分類 809.3

Full Description

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.

Contents

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