The Way of the World: The Bildungsroman in European Culture - Softcover

Moretti, Franco

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1859842984 ISBN 13: 9781859842980

Verlag: Verso Books, 2000

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"A pointed axample of the nature of youth, as represented in the novels of Austen, Balzac, Dickens, Eliot, Flaubert, Goethe and Stendhal... [Moretti] is undoubtedly a brilliant and searching critic." - Independent "A short, brilliant, provocative and often entertainingly upbeat book." - New Society

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Willhelm Meister, Elizabeth Bennet, Julian Sorel, Rastignac, Jane Eyre, Bazaroz, Dorothea Brooke...the Golden Age of the European novel discovers a new collective protagonist: youth. It is problematic and restless youth - 'strange' characters, as their own creators often say - arising from the downfall of traditional societies. But even more than that, youth is the symbolic figure for European modernity: that sudden mix of great expectations and lost illusions that the bourgeois world learns to 'read', and to accept, as if it were a novel. The Way of the World, with its unique combination of narrative theory and social history, interprets the Bildungsroman as the great cultural mediator of nineteenth-century Europe: a form which explores the many strange compromises between revolution and restoration, economic take-off and aesthetic pleasure, individual autonomy and social normality. This new edition includes an additional final chapter on the collapse of the Bildungsroman in the years around the First World War (a crisis which opened the way for Modernist experimentation), and a rew preface in which the Moretti looks back at The Way of the World in light of his more recent work.

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• Verlag: Verso Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1859842984
• ISBN 13: 9781859842980
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 291