The Novel-Essay, 1884-1947

S. Ercolino

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9781137404107
• eBook ISBN: 9781137404114
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Modern History
• Index: History

The novel-essay emerged in France, in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, and reached its highest formal complexity in Austria and Germany, during the interwar period. Here, Ercolino argues that it is crucial for a renovated understating of the history of the novel in modernity.

INDEX

adaptation tools, 51

Adorno, Theodor W., xvi, xviii

cognitive nature of art, 161n48

Doctor Faustus, influence on, 138–41, 143, 164nn8–9

essay form, 28–30, 49, 52, 53, 57, 84, 153n9, 157n6

Mann correspondence, 133, 134

music, 138–40, 144, 164nn6–9, 164n12

negative dialectic, 72, 75

novelty, 137

regression, 145, 146

Aesthetics (Hegel), 70, 156n33, 164n5

Against Nature (Huysmans), xvi, xvi–xvii

Bildungsroman discharge, 42–3, 45

character, 5–6, 9–10, 35–6, 59, 152n2

essayism, 5, 10–12, 38, 52, 54

naturalism and, 12–13, 37–8, 149n1

Schopenhauer’s influence, 21

synesthesia, 27–8

Akhsharumov, Nikolai, 162n71

Albertazzi, Silvia, 153n7

Alexander, Samuel, 31–2

“Allegory and History” (Jameson), 144–5

Allison, Sarah, 32–3

anacrisis, 58, 59

The Analysis of Sensations (Mach), 88

“The Anarchist (1903)” (Broch), 109, 112, 114, 131

See also The Sleepwalkers

aphorism, 52, 98

“An Apology for Raymond Sebond” (Montaigne), 80

Aristotle, 24, 67, 70

L’Assommoir (Zola), 7

naturalism and, 3, 4, 8–9, 13

plot, 5, 8

Auerbach, Erich, 61–2, 69

Austen, Jane, 92

Austria

Austro-Hungarian Empire, xviii, 47, 102, 118, 121, 162n62

Habsburg myth, 119–22, 123, 162n61

intellectual atmosphere, 22, 81, 89

novel-essay emergence, xv

autofiction, 18, 147

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• One
• Two
• Three
• Four
• Notes
• Works Cited
• Index