Forms of Modernity - Couverture rigide

Schmidt, Rachel

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1442642513 ISBN 13 : 9781442642515

Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2011

Synopsis

It's a critical cliche 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, Jose 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Rachel Schmidt is a professor in the Department of French, Italian and Spanish at the University of Calgary.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Toronto Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1442642513
• ISBN 13: 9781442642515
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible