... UP , 1973 . 302 – 47 . Defoe Daniel . Robinson Crusoe . 1719 . New York : Norton , 1994 . Derrida Jacques . Of Grammatology . Trans. Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins UP , 1976 . Dimock Wai Chee . “ Low Epic .” Critical Inquiry 39...

... first by discussing what it calls “commodity origin” scenes in Émile Zola, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Richard Powers, a genre that like the epic simile interrupts the action to provide background knowledge. Second, it reflects on the famous first sentence of Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years...

... for the aesthetic ideology of Romanticism via Hegel and subsumed into national history—the horizon of epic totality—in the historical novel (Scott's Waverley ). Jameson's reversion to the later Lukács in his essay on the historical novel addresses a crisis not only of the genre but of history itself...

...James Ramsey Wallen Abstract This article reads Flaubert's unfinished final novel Bouvard et Pécuchet as a two-volume epic that demonstrates the secret of the encyclopedia: the fact that different calculi of truth functions can be seen to operate independently in different areas of knowledge...

... melodrama, epic, and, in this case, romance) that the realist tradition had ostensibly superseded. Understanding how the formal expansiveness of literary genres can be mobilized strategically, it concludes, affords a critical perspective for analyzing the Anthropocene—a concept whose narrative...

... been scriptural. We might also remember the existence of important efforts to make explicit what is specific to the practices of reading. Recalling the existence of gossip, tales, and oral epics, we should not equate stories or narrative fictions with novels or the reading of novels...

... Claude . Democracy and Political Theory . Trans. Macey David . Minneapolis : U of Minnesota P , 1988 . Lukács Georg . The Theory of the Novel: A Historico-philosophical Essay on the Forms of Great Epic Literature . Trans. Bostock Anna . Cambridge : MIT P , 1971...

... to Novostroika . Durham : Duke UP , 1993 . Lukács Georg . Theory of the Novel: A Historico-Philosophical Essay on the Forms of Great Epic Literature . Trans. Bostock Anna . Cambridge, MA : MIT P , 1971 . Watt Ian . The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding...

... and Brostrom Kenneth . Austin : U of Texas P , 1990 . 4 – 256 . Bakhtin Mikhail . “ Epic and Novel .” The Dialogic Imagination . Ed. Holquist Michael . Trans. Emerson Caryl and Holquist . Austin : U of Texas P , 1981 . 3 – 40 . Bakhtin Mikhail . Problems...

... Pleasures: Essays on Thomas Pynchon . Ed. Levine George and Leverenz David . Boston : Little, Brown , 1976 . 161 – 95 . Moretti Franco . Modern Epic: The World System from Goethe to Gárcia Márquez . London : Verso , 1996 . Pynchon Thomas . Gravity’s Rainbow . London...

... with Dennis Cooper.” 3 A.M. Magazine . 2001 . 3 January 2004 < http://www.3ammagazine.com/litarchives/nov2001/cooper_interview.html >. Lukács , Georg . The Theory of the Novel: A Historico-Philosophical Essay on the Forms of Great Epic Literature . Trans. Anna Bostock. Cambridge: MIT P...

... to return to what is the most immediate “philosophical” source of Benjamin’s own account: Lukács’s Theory of the Novel and its historicized Novel: A Forum on Fiction 42:2  DOI 10.1215/00295132-2009-020  © 2009 by Novel, Inc. 312 novel | summer 2009 division between the classical epic...

... it as a genre are at work before our very eyes: the birth and development of the novel as a genre takes place in the full light of the historical day” (“Epic” 3). In this essay, I consider some of the historical forces at work in the birth of the African novel, an event that occurred in the early years...

... . Lukács , Georg . The Theory of the Novel: A Historico-philosophical Essay on the Forms of Great Epic Literature . Trans. Anna Bostock. Cambridge: MIT P, 1971 . Meruane , Lina . “El efecto Bolaño.” Unpublished manuscript, 2007 . Neubauer , John . “Bakhtin versus Lukács...

... intervention commonly seen in its literary forebears and in the epic in particular. A second tradition, however, drawing from Hegel and exemplified by Georg Lukács's The Theory of the Novel and Erich Auerbach's Mimesis , sees the novel as entertaining a far more ambiguous relationship to secularization...

... that mirrors the move away from what Alexandre Koyré called the “closed world” of tradition and myth to an “infinite universe” of an open, secular future. Unlike the old epics, which assumed a divine harmony and order to the world, the novel presumed lawlessness, disharmony, and sheer contingency; its...

... in the Age of Industrialization, 1800–1900 . Middletown: Wesleyan UP, 1987 . Thom , Martin . Republics, Nations and Tribes . London: Verso, 1995 . Tillyard , E.M.W. The Epic Strain in the English Novel . London: Chatto, 1958 . Todorova , Maria . Imagining the Balkans...

... Geschichtsphilosophischer Versuch über die Formen der grossen Epik . Neuwied: Hermann Luchterhand Verlag, 1963 . ———. Theory of the Novel: A Historico-philosophical Essay on the Forms of Great Epic Literature . Trans. Anna Bostock. Cambridge, MA: MIT P, 1971 . McLuhan , Marshall . The Gutenberg Galaxy...

... gave us the great continental or national epics of the Boom and magical realism; in the wake of the cancellation of literary autonomy, we now have a novel- istic production that is consciously eschewing the ponderous social role that those earlier texts arrogated to themselves: texts that show...

... of Minnesota P, 1984. Lukács, Georg. The Theory of the Novel: A Historico-Philosophical Essay on the Forms of Great Epic Literature. Trans. Anna Bostock. Cambridge, MA: MIT P, 1971. Works Cited Bakhtin M. M. Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics . Trans. Emerson Caryl . Minneapolis : U...