The Twentieth-Century Novel An Introduction,9780312102449

The Twentieth-Century Novel An Introduction

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780312102449
ISBN10: 0312102445
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1997-03-15
Publisher(s): Bedford/St. Martin's
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Summary

The only college-level survey of the twentieth-century novel, this very brief and inexpensive guide presents key historical background for, issues concerning, and critical approaches to the modern, post-modern, and contemporary novel.

Table of Contents

Preface v
Theories of the Novel
1(30)
The Classical Inheritance
4(1)
The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
5(3)
The Nineteenth Century
8(8)
The Novel and the Romance
9(2)
The Novel as Art and Science
11(5)
The Twentieth Century
16(15)
Early Modern Novelists
17(2)
The Rise of Criticism
19(4)
The Rise of Theory
23(2)
Marxist Accents
25(2)
Poststructuralist Criticism
27(4)
The Rise of Modernism
31(32)
The Modern Break
31(7)
The Modernist Canon
38(2)
Intellectual Precursors
40(5)
Isms, Schisms, and Schools
45(7)
Symbolism
48(1)
Naturalism
48(1)
Impressionism
49(1)
Expressionism
49(1)
Imagism
50(1)
Futurism
51(1)
Surrealism
52(1)
Film and the Modern Novel
52(4)
Time and Space
56(7)
From Modernism to Postmodernism
63(17)
1900-1920
64(1)
The 1920s
65(1)
The 1930s
66(2)
The 1940s
68(1)
The 1950s and 1960s: The Rise of the Postmodern
69(1)
Early Critics of the Postmodern
70(4)
Contemporary Postmodernism
74(6)
The Novel, Race, and Nation
80(13)
African American Studies
80(4)
Postcolonial Studies
84(9)
Gender Criticism
93(11)
Anglo-American Feminism
94(3)
French Feminism
97(2)
Gay and Lesbian Studies
99(5)
Glossary: Elements of the Novel 104(22)
Character
105(3)
Novels
108(4)
Definitions
108(1)
Kinds of Novel
109(3)
Plot
112(6)
Parts of the Plot
114(1)
Kinds of Plot
115(3)
Point of View
118(5)
Setting
123(3)
Bibliography: Further Reading on the Novel 126(12)
Index 138

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