The theory of the novel : a historico-philosophical essay on the forms of great epic literature / by Georg Lukacs: translated from the German by Anna Bostock.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: engger Publication details: Cambridge, MA : M.I.T. Press, [c1971]Description: 160 pages, 21 cmISBN:
  • 0262620278
Uniform titles:
  • Theorie des Romans. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809.3/3
LOC classification:
  • PN 3331 .L813 1973
Online resources:
Contents:
I. The forms of great epic literature examined in relation to whether the civilization of the time is an integrated or problematic one 1. Integrated civilizations -- 2. The problems of a philosophy of the history of forms -- 3. The epic and the novel -- 4. The inner form of the novel -- 5. The historico-philosophical conditioning of the novel and its significance.
II. Attempt at a typology of the novel form. 1. Abstract idealism -- 2. The romanticism of disillusionment -- 3. Wilhelm Meister's years of apprenticeship as an attempted synthesis -- 4. Tolstoy and the attempt to go beyond the social forms of life.
Summary: "Georg Lukács wrote The Theory of the Novel in 1914-1915, a period that also saw the conception of Rosa Luxemburg's Spartacus Letters, Lenin's Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, Spengler's Decline of the West, and Ernst Bloch's Spirit of Utopia. Like many of Lukács's early essays, it is a radical critique of bourgeois culture and stems from a specific Central European philosophy of life and tradition of dialectical idealism whose originators include Kant, Hegel, Novalis, Marx, Kierkegaard, Simmel, Weber, and Husserl.The Theory of the Novel marks the transition of the Hungarian philosopher from Kant to Hegel and was Lukács's last great work before he turned to Marxism-Leninism." - from back coverSummary: "'The first English translation of Lukacs's early theoretical work on the novel. It begins with a comparison of the historical conditions that gave rise to the epic and the novel. In the age of the novel the once known unity between man and his world has been lost, and the hero has become an estranged seeker of the meaning of existence. Later, Lukacs offers a typology of the novel based on whether the hero struggles for a realization of a meaningful idea, or withdraws from all action. The balance of these extremes forms the third possibility, and each type is exemplified. The book is not a study of artistic technicalities, but of man, history, and art tied closely in their development. It is written in a moving lyrical style well rendered by the translation.'" - from Library Journal, quoted on the back cover.
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Translation of Die Theorie des Romans.

Includes index.

I. The forms of great epic literature examined in relation to whether the civilization of the time is an integrated or problematic one 1. Integrated civilizations -- 2. The problems of a philosophy of the history of forms -- 3. The epic and the novel -- 4. The inner form of the novel -- 5. The historico-philosophical conditioning of the novel and its significance.

II. Attempt at a typology of the novel form. 1. Abstract idealism -- 2. The romanticism of disillusionment -- 3. Wilhelm Meister's years of apprenticeship as an attempted synthesis -- 4. Tolstoy and the attempt to go beyond the social forms of life.

"Georg Lukács wrote The Theory of the Novel in 1914-1915, a period that also saw the conception of Rosa Luxemburg's Spartacus Letters, Lenin's Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, Spengler's Decline of the West, and Ernst Bloch's Spirit of Utopia. Like many of Lukács's early essays, it is a radical critique of bourgeois culture and stems from a specific Central European philosophy of life and tradition of dialectical idealism whose originators include Kant, Hegel, Novalis, Marx, Kierkegaard, Simmel, Weber, and Husserl.The Theory of the Novel marks the transition of the Hungarian philosopher from Kant to Hegel and was Lukács's last great work before he turned to Marxism-Leninism." - from back cover

"'The first English translation of Lukacs's early theoretical work on the novel. It begins with a comparison of the historical conditions that gave rise to the epic and the novel. In the age of the novel the once known unity between man and his world has been lost, and the hero has become an estranged seeker of the meaning of existence. Later, Lukacs offers a typology of the novel based on whether the hero struggles for a realization of a meaningful idea, or withdraws from all action. The balance of these extremes forms the third possibility, and each type is exemplified. The book is not a study of artistic technicalities, but of man, history, and art tied closely in their development. It is written in a moving lyrical style well rendered by the translation.'" - from Library Journal, quoted on the back cover.

Translated from the German

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