The Novel

Two Volumes. Edited by Franco Moretti. Volume 1: History, Geography, and Culture. Volume 2: Forms and Themes.

Volume 1 looks at the novel mostly from the outside, treating the transition from oral to written storytelling and the rise of narrative and fictionality, and covering the ancient Greek novel, the novel in premodern China, the early Spanish novel, and much else, including readings of novels from around the world. With contributions by Jack Goody, Luiz Costa Lima, Henry Y. H. Zhao et al. Volume 2 views the novel primarily from the inside, examining its many formal arrangements and recurrent thematic manifestations, and looking at the plurality of the genre and its lineages. With contributions by Thomas Pavel, Massimo Fusillo, Sylvie Thorel-Cailleteau et al. Zwei Bände, zus. XX,1.866 Seiten mit 48 Abb. und 23 Tab., gebunden (Princeton University Press 2006) textsauberes Exemplar mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren. Leicht angeschmutzt und bestoßen/clean text pages, minor traces of use, slightly soiled and bumped