Forms of Modernity
Don Quixote and Modern Theories of the Novel
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2021
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-4587-1 (ISBN)
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-4587-1 (ISBN)
In Forms of Modernity, Rachel Schmidt examines how seminal theorists and philosophers have wrestled with the status of Cervantes' Don Quixote is as an 'exemplary novel', in turn contributing to the emergence of key concepts within genre theory.
It's a critical cliché that Cervantes' Don Quixote is the first modern novel, but this distinction raises two fundamental questions. First, how does one define a novel? And second, what is the relationship between this genre and understandings of modernity? In Forms of Modernity, Rachel Schmidt examines how seminal theorists and philosophers have wrestled with the status of Cervantes' masterpiece as an 'exemplary novel', in turn contributing to the emergence of key concepts within genre theory.
Schmidt's discussion covers the views of well-known thinkers such as Friedrich Schlegel, José Ortega y Gasset, and Mikhail Bakhtin, but also the pivotal contributions of philosophers such as Hermann Cohen and Miguel de Unamuno. These theorists' examinations of Cervantes's fictional knight errant character point to an ever-shifting boundary between the real and the virtual. Drawing from both intellectual and literary history, Forms of Modernity richly explores the development of the categories and theories that we use today to analyze and understand novels.
It's a critical cliché that Cervantes' Don Quixote is the first modern novel, but this distinction raises two fundamental questions. First, how does one define a novel? And second, what is the relationship between this genre and understandings of modernity? In Forms of Modernity, Rachel Schmidt examines how seminal theorists and philosophers have wrestled with the status of Cervantes' masterpiece as an 'exemplary novel', in turn contributing to the emergence of key concepts within genre theory.
Schmidt's discussion covers the views of well-known thinkers such as Friedrich Schlegel, José Ortega y Gasset, and Mikhail Bakhtin, but also the pivotal contributions of philosophers such as Hermann Cohen and Miguel de Unamuno. These theorists' examinations of Cervantes's fictional knight errant character point to an ever-shifting boundary between the real and the virtual. Drawing from both intellectual and literary history, Forms of Modernity richly explores the development of the categories and theories that we use today to analyze and understand novels.
Rachel Schmidt is a professor in the Department of French, Italian and Spanish at the University of Calgary.
Prologue
Abbreviations for Cited Material
Note on Translations and Quotations
Don Quixote and the Problem of Modernity
Arabesques and the Modern Novel: Friedrich Schlegel’s Interpretation of Don Quixote
The Emptiness of the Arabesque: Georg Lukács and the Theory of the Novel
Ideas and Forms: Hermann Cohen’s Novelistics
The Poetics of Resuscitation: Unamuno’s Anti-Novelistics
Form Foreshortened: Ortega y Gasset’s Meditations on Don Quixote
Don Quixote in Bakhtin
Revolutions and the Novel
Bibliography
| Erscheinungsdatum | 09.08.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | University of Toronto Romance Series |
| Verlagsort | Toronto |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 600 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Romanistik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4875-4587-8 / 1487545878 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4875-4587-1 / 9781487545871 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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