The Poetics of Novels: Fiction and its Execution

by M. Axelrod

Overview

The Poetics of Novels deals with the fundamentals of novel-writing and the execution of such, and though it engages specific notions of literary and cultural theory, it privileges the architectonics of the texts themselves as it crosses boundaries of both time and culture. Novels include: Austen's Northanger Abbey , Beckett's Company , Brontë's Wuthering Heights , Cervantes' Don Quixote , Flaubert's Madame Bovary , Hamsun's Hunger , Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles , Lispector's Hour of the Star and Smart's By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept .

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333716861
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	09/17/1999
Series:	Fiction and Its Execution
Edition description:	1999
Pages:	228
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Mark Axelrod is a Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at Chapman University, USA.

Table of Contents

A Poetics Foreword The Poetics of the Quest in Cervantes' Don Quixote The Poetics of (P)ostmode(r)n(e) Parody in Austen's Northanger Lane The Poetics of Weather and Nature in Brontë's Wuthering Heights The Poetics of Irony in Flaubert's Madame Bovary The Poetics of Sacrifice in Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles The Poetics of Peripatetics and Peripety in Hamsun's Hunger The Poetics of Prose Poetry in Smart's By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept The Poetics of Mortality in Lispector's The Hour of the Star The Poetics of Voice in Beckett's Company Index

Editorial Reviews

Recommended for scholars, critics, and those interested in advanced literary studies. Choice

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