Value of the Novel

The Value of the Novel offers a reappraisal of the political and literary value of the novel as a genre.

List of contents

1. The novel voice; 2. Is this really realism?; 3. The novel body; 4. Making time matter; 5. The novel, justice and the law.

About the author

Peter Boxall is Professor of English at the University of Sussex. His books include Don DeLillo: The Possibility of Fiction, Since Beckett: Contemporary Writing in the Wake of Modernism and Twenty-First Century-Fiction: A Critical Introduction (Cambridge, 2013). He has also edited and co-edited a number of collections, including Thinking Poetry.

Summary

Peter Boxall's The Value of the Novel offers a reappraisal of the political and literary value of the novel as a genre at turning point in the history both of literature and of criticism. It asks us to see how richly the novel informs our attempts to understand our present and future.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Boxall
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2015
• EAN: 9781107057494
• ISBN: 978-1-107-05749-4
• No. of pages: 168
• Series: The Value of; The Value of
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Literary studies: general, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form