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The True Story of the Wife (Paperback)
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Twentieth-century historians and critics defending the novel have
emphasized its role as superseding something else, as a sort of
legitimate usurper that deposed the Epic, a replacement of myth, or
religious narrative. To say that the Age of Early Christianity was
really also the Age of the Novel rumples such historical
tidiness--but so it was. From the outset of her discussion, Doody
rejects the conventional Anglo-Saxon distinction between Romance
and Novel. This eighteenth-century distinction, she maintains,
served both to keep the foreign--dark-skinned peoples, strange
speakers, Muslims, and others--largely out of literature, and to
obscure the diverse nature of the novel itself.This deeply informed
and truly comparative work is staggering in its breadth. Doody
treats not only recognized classics, but also works of usually
unacknowledged subgenres--new readings of novels like The Pickwick
Papers, Puddn'head Wilson, L'Assommoir, Death in Venice, and
Beloved are accompanied by insights into Death on the Nile or The
Wind in the Willows. Non-Western writers like Chinua Achebe and
Witi Ihimaera are also included. In her last section, Doody goes on
to show that Chinese and Japanese novels, early and late, bear a
strong and not incidental affinity to their Western counterparts.
Collectively, these readings offer the basis for a serious
reassessment of the history and the nature of the novel.The True
Story of the Novel marks the beginning of the twenty-first
century's understanding of fiction and of culture. It is essential
reading for anyone with an interest in literature.
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