Rachel Schmidt

Forms of Modernity

Don Quixote and Modern Theories of the Novel

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In Forms of Modernity, Rachel Schmidt examines how seminal theorists and philosophers have wrestled with the status of Cervantes' Don Quixote is as an 'exemplary novel', in turn contributing to the emergence of key concepts within genre theory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 621g
• ISBN-13: 9781487545871
• ISBN-10: 1487545878
• Artikelnr.: 62391520

Autorenporträt

Rachel Schmidt is a professor in the Department of French, Italian and Spanish at the University of Calgary.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue
Abbreviations for Cited Material
Note on Translations and Quotations
1. Don Quixote and the Problem of Modernity
2. Arabesques and the Modern Novel: Friedrich Schlegel’s Interpretation
of Don Quixote
3. The Emptiness of the Arabesque: Georg LukÁcs and the Theory of the
Novel
4. Ideas and Forms: Hermann Cohen’s Novelistics
5. The Poetics of Resuscitation: Unamuno’s Anti-Novelistics
6. Form Foreshortened: Ortega y Gasset’s Meditations on Don Quixote
7. Don Quixote in Bakhtin
8. Revolutions and the Novel
Bibliography