Travels of a Genre (eBook)

The Modern Novel and Ideology

Mary N. Layoun (Autor)

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2014
286 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6080-7 (ISBN)

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If the modern Western novel is linked to the rise of a literate bourgeoisie with particular social values and narrative expectations, to what extent can that history of the novel be anticipated in non-Western contexts? In this bold, insightful work Mary Layoun investigates the development of literary practice in the Greek, Arabic, and Japanese cultures, which initially considered the novel a foreign genre, a cultural accoutrement of "Western" influence. Offering a textual and contextual analysis of six novels representing early twentieth-century and contemporary literary fiction in these cultures, Layoun illuminates the networks of power in which genre migration and its interpretations have been implicated. She also examines the social and cultural practice of constructing and maintaining narratives, not only within books but outside of them as well. In each of the three cultural traditions, the literary debates surrounding the adoption and adaption of the modern novel focus on problematic formulations of the "modern" versus the "traditional," the "Western" and "foreign" versus the "indigenous," and notions of the modern bourgeois subject versus the precapitalist or precolonial subject. Layoun textually situates and analyzes these formulations in the early twentieth-century novels of Alexandros Papadiamandis (Greece), Yahya Haqqi (Egypt), and Natsume Soseki (Japan) and in the contemporary novels of Dimitris Hatzis (Greece), Ghassan Kanafani (Palestine), and Oe Kenzaburo (Japan).Originally published in 1990.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.7.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Allegory • Anecdote • Antithesis • Barbarian • Bourgeoisie • Character (arts) • Colonialism • Consummation • counterhegemony • critical practice • Cultural Hegemony • cultural heritage • cultural movement • Cultural Nationalism • Cultural revolution • Edward Said • Epithet • Eqbal Ahmad • evocation • Farce • Frantz Fanon • Fredric Jameson • Fukuzawa Yukichi • Genre • George Habash • Hashim • hegemony • Humanism • Ideology • Illustration • Imagery • imagism • imperialism • Individualism • Informant • Interculturalism • Intertextuality • Irony • kamil • Kaspar Hauser • Katharevousa • Kenzaburo Oe • khedive • Kusamakura (novel) • Literary modernism • Literary Theory • Literature • Louis Althusser • Manifesto • Modern Greek • Narration • narrative • narrative history • narrative structure • Neocolonialism • new narrative • newspaper • Nickname • Novel • novelist • Oku no Hosomichi • On Liberty • palestinians • peasant • pen name • Picaresque novel • Poetry • Postmodernism • postnationalism • Precedent • Pretext • Prose • Publication • Publishing • purveyance • Qais • Rabelais and His World • remittance • Rience • Roland Barthes • role reversal • romantic hero • Romanticism • sayyid • Self-Image • Semiotics • sensibility • Social Realism • Social Transformation • Sociocultural evolution • Subjectivity • Suggestion • surplus value • Symbolic Power • Symptom • Synecdoche • Testimonial • The Other Hand • The Various • Underpinning
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6080-6 / 1400860806
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6080-7 / 9781400860807