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The Poetics of Novels

Fiction and its Execution

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  • © 1999

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  1. Mark Axelrod

    1. Chapman University, Orange, USA

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. The Poetics of the Quest in Cervantes’ Don Quixote

    • Mark Axelrod
    Pages 1-27

  3. The Poetics of (P)ostmode(r)n(e) Parody in Austen’s Northanger Abbey

    • Mark Axelrod
    Pages 28-54

  4. The Poetics of Climate in Brontë’s Wuthering Heights

    • Mark Axelrod
    Pages 55-76

  5. The Poetics of Irony in Flaubert’s Madame Bovary

    • Mark Axelrod
    Pages 77-108

  6. The Poetics of Sacrifice in Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles

    • Mark Axelrod
    Pages 109-139

  7. The Poetics of Peripatetics and Peripety in Hamsun’sHunger

    • Mark Axelrod
    Pages 140-170

  8. The Poetics of Prose Poetry in Elizabeth Smart’sBy Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

    • Mark Axelrod
    Pages 171-186

  9. The Poetics of Mortality in Lispector’s The Hour of the Star

    • Mark Axelrod
    Pages 187-204

  10. The Poetics of Voice in Beckett’s Company

    • Mark Axelrod
    Pages 205-213

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 214-228
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About this book

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 , Brontë'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 .

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

Authors and Affiliations

  • Chapman University, Orange, USA

    Mark Axelrod

About the author

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

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Poetics of Novels

  • Book Subtitle: Fiction and its Execution

  • Authors: Mark Axelrod

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230389526

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1999

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-71686-1Published: 17 September 1999

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-38952-6Published: 17 September 1999

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIV, 228

  • Topics: Fiction, Poetry and Poetics

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