Travels of a Genre: The Modern Novel and Ideology
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Travels of a Genre: The Modern Novel and Ideology
By (Author) Mary N. Layoun
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
809.304
Short-listed for Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 1991
Physical Properties
Hardback
286
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
567g
Description
If the modern Western novel is linked to the rise of a literate bourgeoisie with particular social values and narrative expectations, to what extent can that history of the novel be anticipated in non-Western contexts In this bold, insightful work Mary Layoun investigates the development of literary practice in the Greek, Arabic, and Japanese cult
Reviews
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1991 "[A] considerable accomplishment of Layoun's investigation, which forcefully explores a literary comparison whose adoption time in 'the West' has come."--Comparative Literature Studies
