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020 $a9781441177049 (hbk.)
020 $a1441177043 (hbk.)
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050 4 $aPN3451$b.M66 2010
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100 1 $aMoore, Steven,$d1951-
245 14 $aThe novel :$ban alternative history : beginnings to 1600 /$cSteven Moore.
260 $aNew York :$bContinuum,$cc2010.
300 $avi, 698 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 653-679) and indexes.
505 0 $aThe 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 0 $aEncyclopedic 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.
650 0 $aFiction$xHistory and criticism.
655 7 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast
988 $a20100625
906 $0OCLC