The Cambridge Companion to European Novelists

The Cambridge Companion to European Novelists
Author: Michael Bell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 475
Release: 2012-06-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0521515041

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A survey of 25 major European novelists from Cervantes to Kundera, highlighting their contributions to the genre.

The Cambridge Companion to European Novelists

The Cambridge Companion to European Novelists
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A lively and comprehensive account of the whole tradition of European fiction for students and teachers of comparative literature, this volume covers twenty-five of the most significant and influential novelists in Europe from Cervantes to Kundera. While conveying essential introductory information for new readers, these authoritative essays reflect up-to-date scholarship.

The Cambridge Companion to European Modernism

The Cambridge Companion to European Modernism
Author: Pericles Lewis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2011-09-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107493609

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Modernism arose in a period of accelerating globalization in the late nineteenth century. Modernist writers and artists, while often loyal to their country in times of war, aimed to rise above the national and ideological conflicts of the early twentieth century in service to a cosmopolitan ideal. This Companion explores the international aspects of literary modernism by mapping the history of the movement across Europe and within each country. The essays place the various literary traditions within a social and historical context and set out recent critical debates. Particular attention is given to the urban centers in which modernism developed – from Dublin to Zürich, Barcelona to Warsaw – and to the movements of modernists across national borders. A broad, accessible account of European modernism, this Companion explores what this cosmopolitan movement can teach us about life as a citizen of Europe and of the world.

The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel

The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel
Author: Peter Bondanella
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2003-07-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521669627

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The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel provides a broad ranging introduction to the major trends in the development of the Italian novel from its early modern origin to the contemporary era. Contributions cover a wide range of topics including the theory of the novel in Italy, the historical novel, realism, modernism, postmodernism, neorealism, and film and the novel. The contributors are distinguished scholars from the United Kingdom, the United States, Italy, and Australia. Novelists examined include some of the most influential and important of the twentieth century inside and outside Italy: Luigi Pirandello, Primo Levi, Umberto Eco and Italo Calvino. This is a unique examination of the Italian Novel, and will prove invaluable to students and specialists alike. Readers will gain a keen sense of the vitality of the Italian novel throughout its history and a clear picture of the debates and criticism that have surrounded its development.

The Cambridge Companion to the Novel

The Cambridge Companion to the Novel
Author: Eric Bulson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2018-06-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107156211

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This Companion focuses on the novel as a global genre and examines its role, impact and development.

The Cambridge Companion to the French Novel

The Cambridge Companion to the French Novel
Author: Timothy Unwin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1997-10-28
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780521499149

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This volume offers a unique and valuable insight into the novel in French over the past two centuries. In a series of essays, acknowledged experts discuss a variety of topics including nineteenth-century realism, women and fiction, popular fiction, experiment and innovation, war and the Holocaust, the Francophone novel, and postmodern fiction. They offer a challenging reassessment of major figures, while deliberately reading traditional views of literary history against the grain. Theoretical discussion is combined with close reading of texts and exploration of context, comparison with other genres and other literatures, and reference to novels from earlier periods. This companionable introduction includes a chronology and guide to further reading. From it emerges a strong sense of the vitality and energy of the modern French novel, and of the debates surrounding it.

The Cambridge Companion to Henry James

The Cambridge Companion to Henry James
Author: Jonathan Freedman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1998-05-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1139825364

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The Cambridge Companion to Henry James provides a critical introduction to James's work. Throughout the major critical shifts of the last fifty years, and despite suspicions of the traditional high literary culture which was James's milieu, he has retained a powerful hold on readers and critics alike. All essays are written at a level free from technical jargon, designed to promote accessibility to the study of James and his work.

The Cambridge Companion to English Novelists

The Cambridge Companion to English Novelists
Author: Adrian Poole
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2009-12-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1139828118

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In this Companion, leading scholars and critics address the work of the most celebrated and enduring novelists from the British Isles (excluding living writers): among them Defoe, Richardson, Sterne, Austen, Dickens, the Brontës, George Eliot, Hardy, James, Lawrence, Joyce, and Woolf. The significance of each writer in their own time is explained, the relation of their work to that of predecessors and successors explored, and their most important novels analysed. These essays do not aim to create a canon in a prescriptive way, but taken together they describe a strong developing tradition of the writing of fictional prose over the past 300 years. This volume is a helpful guide for those studying and teaching the novel, and will allow readers to consider the significance of less familiar authors such as Henry Green and Elizabeth Bowen alongside those with a more established place in literary history.

The Cambridge Companion to European Novelists

The Cambridge Companion to European Novelists
Author: Michael Bell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 475
Release: 2012-06-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107493897

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A lively and comprehensive account of the whole tradition of European fiction for students and teachers of comparative literature, this volume covers twenty-five of the most significant and influential novelists in Europe from Cervantes to Kundera. Each essay examines an author's use of, and contributions to, the genre and also engages an important aspect of the form, such as its relation to romance or one of its sub-genres, such as the Bildungsroman. Larger theoretical questions are introduced through specific readings of exemplary novels. Taking a broad historical and geographic view, the essays keep in mind the role the novel itself has played in the development of European national identities and in cultural history over the last four centuries. While conveying essential introductory information for new readers, these authoritative essays reflect up-to-date scholarship and also review, and sometimes challenge, conventional accounts.

The Cambridge Companion to Virgil

The Cambridge Companion to Virgil
Author: Charles Martindale
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 408
Release: 1997-10-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521498852

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Virgil became a school author in his own lifetime and the centre of the Western canon for the next 1800 years, exerting a major influence on European literature, art, and politics. This Companion is designed as an indispensable guide for anyone seeking a fuller understanding of an author critical to so many disciplines. It consists of essays by seventeen scholars from Britain, the USA, Ireland and Italy which offer a range of different perspectives both traditional and innovative on Virgil's works, and a renewed sense of why Virgil matters today. The Companion is divided into four main sections, focussing on reception, genre, context, and form. This ground-breaking book not only provides a wealth of material for an informed reading but also offers sophisticated insights which point to the shape of Virgilian scholarship and criticism to come.