Time and the novel : the genealogical imperative /
Formalist criticism of the modern novel has concentrated on its spatial aspects. Patricia Tobin focuses, instead, on the modern novel's temporal structure. She notes that the ""genealogical imperative"" that dominated the nineteenth-century novel, in which one event gave bir...
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
1978.
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| ISBN: | 9781400871483 1400871484 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- INTRODUCTION. Whence the Novel: The Genealogical Imperative
- 1. Subverting the Father: Some Nineteenth-Century Precursors
- 2. "Links in a Chain": Thomas Mann, Bnddenbrooks
- 3. The Cycle Dance: D.H. Lawrence, The Rainbow
- 4. "The Shadowy Attenuation of Time": William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!
- 5. "A Colored Spiral in a Ball of Glass": "Vladimir Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
- 6. "Everything Is Known": Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
- CONCLUSION. Whither the Novel: The Wager on Surface
- Notes
- Index
- Backmatter