{"product_id":"reading-the-modern-european-novel-since-1900-isbn-9781119895022","title":"Reading the Modern European Novel since 1900","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn exploration of the modern European novel from a renowned English literature scholar\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eReading the Modern European Novel since 1900\u003c\/i\u003e is an engaging, in-depth examination of the evolution of the modern European novel. Written in Daniel R. Schwarz's precise and highly readable style, this critical study offers compelling discussions on a wide range of major works since 1900 and examines recurring themes within the context of significant historical events, including both World Wars and the Holocaust. The author cites important developments in the evolution of the modern novel and explores how these paradigmatic works of fiction reflect intellectual and cultural history, including developments in painting and cinema. Schwarz focuses on narrative complexity, thematic subtlety, and formal originality as well as how novels render historical events and cultural developments Discussing major works by Proust, Camus, Mann, Kafka, Grass, di Lampedusa, Bassani, Kertesz, Pamuk, Kundera, Saramago, Muller and Ferrante, Schwarz explores how these often experimental masterworks pay homage to the their major predecessors—discussed in Schwarz's ground-breaking \u003ci\u003eReading the European Novel to 1900\u003c\/i\u003e—even while proposing radical departures from realism in their approach to time and space, their testing the limits of language, and their innovative ways of rendering the human psyche.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWritten for teachers and students by a highly-acclaimed scholar and including valuable study questions, \u003ci\u003eReading the Modern European Novel since 1900\u003c\/i\u003e offers a guide for a deeper understanding of how these original modern masters respond to both the past and present.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlso by Daniel R. Schwarz xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Introduction: The Novel After 1900 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Cultural Crisis: Decadence and Desire in Mann’s Death in Venice (1912) 13\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Proust's Swann's Way (1913) and the Novel of Sensibility: Memory, Obsession, and Consciousness 34\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 The Metamorphosis (1915): Kaf ka's Noir Challenge to Realism 59\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Camus's Indifferent, Amoral, and Godless Cosmos: The Stranger (1942) and The Plague (1947) as Existential Novels 77\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Why Giorgio Bassani Matters: The Elegiac Imagined World of Bassani and the Jews of Ferrara 109\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 The Novel as Elegy: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's The Leopard (1958) 126\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Günter Grass's The Tin Drum (1959): Reconfiguring European History as Fable 144\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Imre Kertész's Fatelessness (1975): Rendering the Holocaust as a Present Tense Event 176\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984): History as Fate 197\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Saramago's The History of the Siege of Lisbon (1989): Rewriting History, Reconfiguring Lives 223\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Orhan Pamuk's My Name is Red (1998): Cultural Conflict in Sixteenth]Century Istanbul and its Modern Implications 242\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Herta Müller's The Hunger Angel (2009): A Hunger for Life, A Hunger for Words 265\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Quartet: Women Discovering Their Voices in a Violent and Sexist Male Society 286\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelected Bibliography (Including Works Cited) 327\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 334\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaniel R. Schwarz\u003c\/b\u003e is Frederic J. Whiton Professor of English Literature and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell University. In 1998 he received Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences Russell Award for Distinguished Teaching. Considered one of the world's leading authorities on James Joyce, Joseph Conrad, and Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Modernism, his most recent books are \u003ci\u003eHow to Succeed in College and Beyond: The Art of Learning and Reading the European Novel to 1900.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn exploration of the modern European novel from a renowned English literature scholar\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eReading the Modern European Novel since 1900\u003c\/i\u003e is an engaging, in-depth examination of the evolution of the modern European novel. Written in Daniel R. 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Discussing major works by Proust, Camus, Mann, Kafka, Grass, di Lampedusa, Bassani, Kertesz, Pamuk, Kundera, Saramago, Müller and Ferrante, Schwarz explores how these often experimental masterworks pay homage to the their major predecessors – discussed in Schwarz's ground-breaking \u003ci\u003eReading the European Novel to 1900\u003c\/i\u003e – even while proposing radical departures from realism in their approach to time and space, their testing the limits of language, and their innovative ways of rendering the human psyche.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWritten for teachers and students by a highly-acclaimed scholar and including valuable study questions, \u003ci\u003eReading the Modern European Novel since 1900 \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a guide for a deeper understanding of how these original modern masters respond to both the past and present.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989918859493,"sku":"NP9781119895022","price":37.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781119895022.jpg?v=1761785906","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/reading-the-modern-european-novel-since-1900-isbn-9781119895022","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}