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29%OFFDavid Kurnick - Empty Houses: Theatrical Failure and the Novel - 9780691153162 - V9780691153162
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Empty Houses: Theatrical Failure and the Novel

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Description for Empty Houses: Theatrical Failure and the Novel Paperback. Delving into the critical role of the theater in the origins of the novel of interiority, this title reinterprets the novel as a record of dissatisfaction with inwardness and an injunction to rethink human identity in radically collective and social terms. Num Pages: 272 pages, 13 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 156 x 234 x 16. Weight in Grams: 394.
According to the dominant tradition of literary criticism, the novel is the form par excellence of the private individual. "Empty Houses" challenges this consensus by reexamining the genre's development from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century and exploring what has until now seemed an anomaly - the frustrated theatrical ambitions of major novelists. Offering new interpretations of the careers of William Makepeace Thackeray, George Eliot, Henry James, James Joyce, and James Baldwin - writers known for mapping ever-narrower interior geographies - this book argues that the genre's inward-looking tendency has been misunderstood. Delving into the critical role of the theater ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691153162
SKU
V9780691153162
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About David Kurnick
David Kurnick is associate professor of English at Rutgers University.

Reviews for Empty Houses: Theatrical Failure and the Novel
Co-Winner of the 2013 Sonia Rudikoff Prize, Northeast Victorian Studies Association Shortlisted for the 2013 MSA Book Prize, Modernist Studies Association "Empty Houses is an admirable book. Its willingness to question established views on the novel has enlightening results. In the boldness and originality of its arguments, it makes a valuable contribution not only to scholarship on the novelists it ... Read more

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