{"product_id":"theory-of-the-novel-9780674333727","title":"Theory of the Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe novel is the most important form of Western art. It aims to represent the totality of life; it is the flagship that literature sends out against the systematic thought of science and philosophy. Indebted to Luk cs and Bakhtin, to Auerbach and Ian Watt, Guido Mazzoni's \u003ci\u003eTheory of the Novel\u003c\/i\u003e breaks new ground, building a historical understanding of how the novel became the modern book of life: one of the best representations of our experience of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe genre arose during a long metamorphosis of narrative forms that took place between 1550 and 1800. By the nineteenth century it had come to encompass a corpus of texts distinguished by their freedom from traditional formal boundaries and by the particularity of their narratives. Mazzoni explains that modern novels consist of stories told in any way whatsoever, by narrators who exist--like us--as contingent beings within time and space. They therefore present an interpretation, not a copy, of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNovels grant new importance to the stories of ordinary men and women and allow readers to step into other lives and other versions of truth. As \u003ci\u003eTheory of the Novel \u003c\/i\u003emakes clear, this art form narrates an epoch and a society in which individual experiences do not converge but proliferate, in which the common world has fragmented into a plurality of small, local worlds, each absolute in its particularity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Guido Mazzoni\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/02\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 408\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.50w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674333727\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMazzoni, Guido:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Guido Mazzoni is Professor of Literary Theory at the Università di Siena and the author of \u003ci\u003eTheory of the Novel\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harvard","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40767992823923,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":70.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_a11202a9-3da6-4554-8f14-6a86ed080a8d.jpg?v=1679663928","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/theory-of-the-novel-9780674333727","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}