{"product_id":"forms-of-modernity-don-quixote-and-modern-theories-of-the-novel-paperback-softback-9781487545871","title":"Forms of Modernity; Don Quixote and Modern Theories of the Novel (Paperback \/ softback) 9781487545871","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eForms of Modernity\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eDon Quixote and Modern Theories of the Novel\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRachel Schmidt (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487545871\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 26 July 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e384 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.6 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's a critical cliché that Cervantes' \u003cem\u003eDon Quixote\u003c\/em\u003e is the first modern novel, but this distinction raises two fundamental questions. First, how does one define a novel? And second, what is the relationship between this genre and understandings of modernity? In \u003cem\u003eForms of Modernity\u003c\/em\u003e, Rachel Schmidt examines how seminal theorists and philosophers have wrestled with the status of Cervantes' masterpiece as an 'exemplary novel', in turn contributing to the emergence of key concepts within genre theory.\u003cbr\u003e Schmidt's discussion covers the views of well-known thinkers such as Friedrich Schlegel, José Ortega y Gasset, and Mikhail Bakhtin, but also the pivotal contributions of philosophers such as Hermann Cohen and Miguel de Unamuno. These theorists' examinations of Cervantes's fictional knight errant character point to an ever-shifting boundary between the real and the virtual. Drawing from both intellectual and literary history, \u003cem\u003eForms of Modernity\u003c\/em\u003e richly explores the development of the categories and theories that we use today to analyze and understand novels.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePrologue\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cem\u003eAbbreviations for Cited Material \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cem\u003eNote on Translations and Quotations\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003col\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eDon Quixote \u003c\/em\u003eand the Problem of Modernity\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eArabesques and the Modern Novel: Friedrich Schlegel’s Interpretation of \u003cem\u003eDon Quixote\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe Emptiness of the Arabesque: Georg LukÁcs and the Theory of the Novel \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIdeas and Forms: Hermann Cohen’s Novelistics \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe Poetics of Resuscitation: Unamuno’s Anti-Novelistics\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eForm Foreshortened: Ortega y Gasset’s \u003cem\u003eMeditations on Don Quixote\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eDon Quixote \u003c\/em\u003ein Bakhtin\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eRevolutions and the Novel\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ol\u003eBibliography\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52743747928344,"sku":"9781487545871","price":30.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/forms-of-modernity-don-quixote-and-modern-theories-of-the-novel-paperback-softback-9781487545871","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}