The Cambridge introduction to the novel
MacKay, Marina2011
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Drawing on hundreds of examples, MacKay explores the essential aspects of the novel and its history: where novels came from and why we read them; how we think about their styles and techniques, their people, plots, places, and politics.
Main title:
The Cambridge introduction to the novel / by Marina MacKay
Author:
Imprint:
Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2011
Collation:
217 p.
Contents:
About this book -- 1. Why the novel matters -- Interchapter: Don Quixote -- 2. Origins of the novel --Interchapter: Tristram Shandy -- 3. Narrating the novel -- Interchapter: Justified Sinner -- 4. Character and the novel -- Interchapter: The Scarlet Letter -- 5. Plotting the novel -- Interchapter: Madame Bovary -- 6. Setting the novel-- Interchapter: Bleak House -- 7. Time and history -- Interchapter: To the Lighthouse -- 8. Genre and subgenre -- Interchapter: The Ministry of Fear -- 9. Novel and anti-novel -- Interchapter: The Crying of Lot 49 -- 10. Novel, nation, community -- Interchapter: Midnights Children -- 11. Concluding -- Glossary -- Further reading
ISBN:
9780521713344 (pbk)
Dewey class:
809.3 CAM
Local class:
809.3
Language:
English
BRN:
657
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Marys | Nonfiction | 809.3 CAM | Available |