The Novel Between History and Story
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https://doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.28.1.181-200Keywords:
theory of the novel, formal realism, modern novelAbstract
This paper analyzes two distinct hypotheses regarding the historical development of the novel in the West. The first, which seems to be the most celebrated, can be summed up by Ian Watt’s study (The Rise of the Novel), which situates the origin of the novel in 18th England. However, several opposing views of this thesis emerged within English literary criticism, especially the studies of M. A. Doody (The True Story of the Novel: an Alternative History) and Michael McKeon (The Origins of the English Novel 1600-1740), pointing to an “alternative history” of the novel, based on the assumption of a wider development of prose fiction, which would refer to the texts of antiquity and Eastern countries.
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