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The Cambridge Introduction to the Novel

The Cambridge Introduction to the Novel

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作者: Marina MacKay 著

出版社: Cambridge University Press

出版时间: 2010-11

版次: 1

ISBN: 9780521713344

定价: 216.00

装帧: 平装

开本: 16开

纸张: 胶版纸

页数: 217页

分类: 外文古旧书>英文书>社会文化

　　Beginning its life as the sensational entertainment of theeighteenth century, the novel has become the major literary genreof modern times. Drawing on hundreds of examples of famous novelsfrom all over the world, Marina MacKay explores the essentialaspects of the novel and its history: where novels came from andwhy we read them; how we think about their styles and techniques,their people, plots, places, and politics. Between the mainchapters are longer readings of individual works, from Don Quixoteto Midnight's Children. A glossary of key terms and a guide tofurther reading are included, making this an ideal accompaniment tointroductory courses on the novel.

  · Written without specialist jargon for undergraduates beginningto study literature · Chapters clearly organised by topic, withsample readings of important novels · Includes glossary and guideto further reading Acknowledgments viii

About this book ix

Chapter 1     Why the novel matters 1

　Passions awakened: the dangers of fiction 2

　Women and the novel 4

　The novel becomes an “art” 8

　Novelistic realisms and realities 12

　Interchapter: Don Quixote 16

Chapter 2     Origins of the novel 21

　Dates and definitions 21

　The (eighteenth-century) rise of the novel 23

　But is it a novel?  26

　Origins in the novel 29

　Interchapter: Tristram Shandy 34

Chapter 3     Narrating the novel 39

　Omniscient narration 40

　Focalization and free indirect discourse 43

　Interior monologue and stream of consciousness 50

　First-person narration and the problem of reliability 52

　Stories within stories and other composite fictions 56

　Interchapter: Justified Sinner 60

Chapter 4     Character and the novel 64

　Constructing and construing character 65

　Flat/round, major/minor, transparent/opaque 69

　Character as text 70

　Character as function and person 73

　Interchapter: The Scarlet Letter 79

Chapter 5     Plotting the novel 83

　Suspense, interruption, and delay 84

　Consequentiality and meaning 87

　Connectivity and social order 90

　Plots and masterplots 92

　Interchapter: Madame Bovary 95

Chapter 6     Setting the novel 99

　Improving your estate 100

　The monster at the margins 103

　Land, sea, and labor 105

　Cityscapes 108

　Nowhere and everywhere 112

　Interchapter: Bleak House 115

Chapter 7     Time and history 119

　History and story 119

　Transformations of time in the modern novel 125

　Interchapter: To the Lighthouse 131

Chapter 8     Genre and subgenre 135

　Genre fiction/literary fiction 135

　Literary value and its arbiters 137

　Genre fiction as cultural text 139

　Originality and expectations 141

　Interchapter: The Ministry of Fear 144

Chapter 9     Novel and anti-novel 148

　Magical realism 149

　The rise of metafiction 150

　Writing and rewriting 155

　Postmodernism, politics, history 156

　Interchapter: The Crying of Lot 49 159

Chapter 10    Novel, nation, community 162

　Representing the part and the whole 162

　E pluribus unum: the nation-making novel  165

　Multiculturalism and the languages of fiction 167

　Interchapter: Midnight’s Children 172

Chapter 11    Concluding 176

　Apocalyptic thinking 177

　Open endings 178

　Closure and anti-closure 181

　Ongoingness 182

Notes 184

Glossary 197

Further reading 206

Index 211
内容简介:
　　Beginning its life as the sensational entertainment of theeighteenth century, the novel has become the major literary genreof modern times. Drawing on hundreds of examples of famous novelsfrom all over the world, Marina MacKay explores the essentialaspects of the novel and its history: where novels came from andwhy we read them; how we think about their styles and techniques,their people, plots, places, and politics. Between the mainchapters are longer readings of individual works, from Don Quixoteto Midnight's Children. A glossary of key terms and a guide tofurther reading are included, making this an ideal accompaniment tointroductory courses on the novel.

· Written without specialist jargon for undergraduates beginningto study literature · Chapters clearly organised by topic, withsample readings of important novels · Includes glossary and guideto further reading
目录:
Acknowledgments viii

About this book ix

Chapter 1     Why the novel matters 1

　Passions awakened: the dangers of fiction 2

　Women and the novel 4

　The novel becomes an “art” 8

　Novelistic realisms and realities 12

　Interchapter: Don Quixote 16

Chapter 2     Origins of the novel 21

　Dates and definitions 21

　The (eighteenth-century) rise of the novel 23

　But is it a novel?  26

　Origins in the novel 29

　Interchapter: Tristram Shandy 34

Chapter 3     Narrating the novel 39

　Omniscient narration 40

　Focalization and free indirect discourse 43

　Interior monologue and stream of consciousness 50

　First-person narration and the problem of reliability 52

　Stories within stories and other composite fictions 56

　Interchapter: Justified Sinner 60

Chapter 4     Character and the novel 64

　Constructing and construing character 65

　Flat/round, major/minor, transparent/opaque 69

　Character as text 70

　Character as function and person 73

　Interchapter: The Scarlet Letter 79

Chapter 5     Plotting the novel 83

　Suspense, interruption, and delay 84

　Consequentiality and meaning 87

　Connectivity and social order 90

　Plots and masterplots 92

　Interchapter: Madame Bovary 95

Chapter 6     Setting the novel 99

　Improving your estate 100

　The monster at the margins 103

　Land, sea, and labor 105

　Cityscapes 108

　Nowhere and everywhere 112

　Interchapter: Bleak House 115

Chapter 7     Time and history 119

　History and story 119

　Transformations of time in the modern novel 125

　Interchapter: To the Lighthouse 131

Chapter 8     Genre and subgenre 135

　Genre fiction/literary fiction 135

　Literary value and its arbiters 137

　Genre fiction as cultural text 139

　Originality and expectations 141

　Interchapter: The Ministry of Fear 144

Chapter 9     Novel and anti-novel 148

　Magical realism 149

　The rise of metafiction 150

　Writing and rewriting 155

　Postmodernism, politics, history 156

　Interchapter: The Crying of Lot 49 159

Chapter 10    Novel, nation, community 162

　Representing the part and the whole 162

　E pluribus unum: the nation-making novel  165

　Multiculturalism and the languages of fiction 167

　Interchapter: Midnight’s Children 172

Chapter 11    Concluding 176

　Apocalyptic thinking 177

　Open endings 178

　Closure and anti-closure 181

　Ongoingness 182

Notes 184

Glossary 197

Further reading 206

Index 211

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