Philosophy of the Novel

• Main Author: Stocker, Barry (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Aesthetics.; Literature-Philosophy.; Literature-History and criticism.; Literary Theory.; Literary History.

This book explores the aesthetics of the novel from the perspective of Continental European philosophy, presenting a theory on the philosophical definition and importance of the novel as a literary genre. It analyses a variety of individuals whose work is reflected in both theoretical literary criti...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Epic in Aristotle and Vico
• 3. Idealism and Romanticism
• 4. Kierkegaard, Irony and Subjectivity
• 5. Lukács on Subjectivity and History (Introduced through Nietzsche)
• 6. Bakhtin, Ethics and Time
• 7. Mimesis, Humanism and History
• 8. Mimetic Limits
• 9. The Absolute Novel
• 10. The Philosophical Novel
• Bibliography
• Index.