The novel : an alternative history : beginnings to 1600 / Steven Moore.

By: Moore, Steven, 1951-Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : Continuum, c2010. Description: vi, 698 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 9781441177049; 1441177043; 1441177043Subject(s): Fiction -- History and criticismDDC classification: 809.3 LOC classification: PN3451 | .M66 2010Online resources: Contributor biographical information | Table of contents only | Publisher description | WorldCat details

Contents:

TOC The 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.

Summary: Summary: Encyclopedic 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Text	Dr. S. R. Lasker Library, EWU Reserve Section	Fiction	809.3 MON 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	C-1	Not For Loan		24268
Text	Dr. S. R. Lasker Library, EWU Circulation Section	Fiction	809.3 MON 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	C-2	Available		24269

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 653-679) and indexes.

TOC The 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.

Summary:
Encyclopedic 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.

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