The Poetics of Novels Fiction and its Execution [Hardcover]

The Poetics of Novels deals with the fundamentals of novel-writing and the execution of such, and though it engages specific notions of literary and cultural theory, it privileges the architectonics of the texts themselves as it crosses boundaries of both time and culture. Novels include: Austen's Northanger Abbey , Beckett's Company , Bront?'s Wuthering Heights , Cervantes' Don Quixote , Flaubert's Madame Bovary , Hamsun's Hunger , Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles , Lispector's Hour of the Star and Smart's By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept .A Poetics Foreword The Poetics of the Quest in Cervantes' Don Quixote The Poetics of (P)ostmode(r)n(e) Parody in Austen's Northanger Lane The Poetics of Weather and Nature in Bront?'s Wuthering Heights The Poetics of Irony in Flaubert's Madame Bovary The Poetics of Sacrifice in Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles The Poetics of Peripatetics and Peripety in Hamsun's Hunger The Poetics of Prose Poetry in Smart's By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept The Poetics of Mortality in Lispector's The Hour of the Star The Poetics of Voice in Beckett's Company Index

Recommended for scholars, critics, and those interested in advanced literary studies. Choice

Mark Axelrod is a Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at Chapman University, USA.