The lives of the novel a history

This is a boldly original history of the novel from ancient Greece to the vibrant world of contemporary fiction. Thomas Pavel argues that the driving force behind the novel's evolution has been a rivalry between stories that idealize human behavior and those that ridicule and condemn it. Impell...

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Main Author: Pavel, Thomas G. 1941- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
French
Published: Princeton, New Jersey Princeton University Press [2013]
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