Forms of Modernity
Don Quixote and Modern Theories of the Novel
1st Edition
Published on 31. December 2011
384 pages
978-1-4426-9418-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
File size
1,83 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4426-9418-7 (9781442694187)
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04/2011
University of Toronto Press
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Rachel Schmidt is a professor in the Department of French, Italian and Spanish at the University of Calgary.
Content
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 LukAcs 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
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 LukAcs 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
