Patricia Drechsel Tobin Time and the Novel (Hardback) Princeton Legacy Library-image

Patricia Drechsel Tobin Time and the Novel (Hardback) Princeton Legacy Library

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Format: Hardcover Item Weight: 13 Oz ISBN: 9780691630373 ISBN-10: 0691630372 Number of Pages: 250 Pages Type: Textbook Subject Area: Literary Criticism EAN: 9780691630373 Publication Name: Time and the Novel : the Genealogical Imperative Publisher: Princeton University Press Language: English Item Length: 8.2 in Release Date: 04/19/2016 Subtitle: The Genealogical Imperative Book Title: Time and the Novel Author: Patricia Drechsel Tobin Release Year: 2016 Country of Origin: US gtin13: 9780691630373 Series: Princeton Legacy Library Publication Year: 2016 Item Width: 5.4 in Genre: Literary Criticism Subject: General, Subjects & Themes / General Item Height: 0.8 in

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Further Details Title: Time and the Novel Condition: New Subtitle: The Genealogical Imperative Author: Patricia Drechsel Tobin Format: Hardback ISBN-10: 0691630372 EAN: 9780691630373 ISBN: 9780691630373 Publisher: Princeton University Press Genre: Literary Criticism Release Date: 04/19/2016 Description: 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 birth to another, has broken down in the twentieth-century novels she studies. Further, she draws parallels between this collapse of linear narrative and the current challenge to linearity from many other areas of modern thought. Beginning with Mann's Buddenbrooks as a family chronicle novel that fully embodies the classical genealogical structure, the author extends her analysis to include distortions of the linear perspective in Lawrence's The Rainbow, Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, Nabokov's Ada, or Ardor, and Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude.She finds that in these novels about family relationships, the continuity of time, family, and story has dissolved so that past, present, and future have lost their distinctions; sins against the dynastic family are not only recognized but celebrated; and literary and existential meanings are suspended in unlikely juxtapositions, irrational metamorphoses, and proliferating possibilities. Professor Tobin suggests that the disappearance of the genealogical imperative in the contemporary world's sense of reality may account for much of what appears to be anonymous, peripheral, and excessive in post-modern fiction. Originally published in 1979. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 203mm Item Length: 127mm Item Weight: 369g Series: Princeton Legacy Library Release Year: 2016 Missing Information? Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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