Forms of Modernity - Don Quixote and Modern Theories of the Novel

Informationen zum Autor Rachel Schmidt is a professor in the Department of French, Italian and Spanish at the University of Calgary. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Rachel Schmidt
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.04.2011
• EAN: 9781442642515
• ISBN: 978-1-4426-4251-5
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: University of Toronto Romance Series; University of Toronto Romance; University of Toronto Romance Series; University of Toronto Romance
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies