The Encyclopedia of the Novel

Peter Melville Logan

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2014
• ISBN:
  9781118779071
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

Now available in a single volume paperback, this advanced reference resource for the novel and novel theory offers authoritative accounts of the history, terminology, and genre of the novel, inover 140 articles of 500-7, 000 words.

Entries explore the history and tradition of the novel in different areas of the world; formal elements of the novel (story, plot, character, narrator); technical aspects of the genre (such as realism, narrative structure and style); subgenres, including the bildungsroman and the graphic novel; theoretical problems, such as definitions of the novel; book history; and the novel's relationship to other arts and disciplines.

The Encyclopedia is arranged in A-Z format and features entries from an internationalcast of over 140 scholars, overseen by an advisory board of 37 leading specialists in the field, making this the most authoritative reference resource available on the novel.

This essential reference, now available in an easy-to-use, fully indexed single volume paperback, will be a vital addition to the libraries of literature students and scholars everywhere.

Index of Novelists

This index of novelists includes all novelists mentioned in the Encyclopedia as well as writers of other narrative forms that, while not themselves thought of as novels, played a significant role in the development of the novel. It is designed to be as generous as possible in determining which names to include. When questions arose, the editors generally chose to include writers rather than exclude them.

• al-“Alim, Raja” (b. 1963)
• al-A”raj, Wasini (b. 1954)
• al-“Arawi,” Abdallah (b. 1933)
• Aba-enlil-dari
• Abani, Chris (b. 1966): Graceland
• Abd al-Qader, Ahmed Ben (b. 1941)
• Abdel Malek, Smari (b. 1958)
• Abdelqader, Ahmed Ould
  • Al-asma” al-mutaghayyira
  • Al-qabr al-majhoul
• Abdelwahab, Hasan Hosni (1884–1968): Amiratu Gharnata
• Abdolah, Kader (b. 1954)
• Abdul Kadir Adabi (1901–44): AcumanMahkota
• Abdul Samad Said (b. 1935): Salina
• Abdul Talib bin Mohd. Hassan (b. 1947): Saga
• Abdul-Baki, Kathryn (b. 1952)
• Abe Kōbō (1924–93): Kemonotachi wa kokyō mezasu
• Abeysekera, Tissa (1939–2009)
• Aboulela, Leila (b. 1964)
  • The...

Table of contents

• Cover
• The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature
• Title Page
• Copyright
• List of Entries by Topic
• Editors
• Board of Advisors
• Contributors
• Introduction
• Acknowledgments
• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I
• J
• K
• L
• M
• N
• O
• P
• Q
• R
• S
• T
• U
• V
• W
• X
• Y
• Z
• Index of Novelists
• General Index
• End User License Agreement