The Twentieth-Century Novel An Introduction

by Kershner, R. Brandon

• ISBN13: 9780312102449
• ISBN10: 0312102445
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-03-15
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

Summary

The only college-level survey of the twentieth-century novel, this very brief and inexpensive guide presents key historical background for, issues concerning, and critical approaches to the modern, post-modern, and contemporary novel.

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Theories of the Novel	1	(30)
The Classical Inheritance	4	(1)
The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries	5	(3)
The Nineteenth Century	8	(8)
The Novel and the Romance	9	(2)
The Novel as Art and Science	11	(5)
The Twentieth Century	16	(15)
Early Modern Novelists	17	(2)
The Rise of Criticism	19	(4)
The Rise of Theory	23	(2)
Marxist Accents	25	(2)
Poststructuralist Criticism	27	(4)
The Rise of Modernism	31	(32)
The Modern Break	31	(7)
The Modernist Canon	38	(2)
Intellectual Precursors	40	(5)
Isms, Schisms, and Schools	45	(7)
Symbolism	48	(1)
Naturalism	48	(1)
Impressionism	49	(1)
Expressionism	49	(1)
Imagism	50	(1)
Futurism	51	(1)
Surrealism	52	(1)
Film and the Modern Novel	52	(4)
Time and Space	56	(7)
From Modernism to Postmodernism	63	(17)
1900-1920	64	(1)
The 1920s	65	(1)
The 1930s	66	(2)
The 1940s	68	(1)
The 1950s and 1960s: The Rise of the Postmodern	69	(1)
Early Critics of the Postmodern	70	(4)
Contemporary Postmodernism	74	(6)
The Novel, Race, and Nation	80	(13)
African American Studies	80	(4)
Postcolonial Studies	84	(9)
Gender Criticism	93	(11)
Anglo-American Feminism	94	(3)
French Feminism	97	(2)
Gay and Lesbian Studies	99	(5)
Glossary: Elements of the Novel	104	(22)
Character	105	(3)
Novels	108	(4)
Definitions	108	(1)
Kinds of Novel	109	(3)
Plot	112	(6)
Parts of the Plot	114	(1)
Kinds of Plot	115	(3)
Point of View	118	(5)
Setting	123	(3)
Bibliography: Further Reading on the Novel	126	(12)
Index	138