Way of the World The Bildungsroman in European Culture

Name: Way of the World The Bildungsroman in European Culture
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ISBN: 9781859842980

ISBN-10: 1859842984

ISBN-13: 9781859842980

Edition: 2000

Authors: Franco Moretti, Albert Sbragia

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 9/17/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 292
Size: 5.90" wide x 8.90" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Preface: Twenty Years Later


Acknowledgements


Introduction: The Bildungsroman as Symbolic Form



The Comfort of Civilization


The Ring of Life


The Rhetoric of Happiness


Anti-Robinson


Aesthetic Education


The Art of Living


Personality


Trial, Opportunity, Episode


Conversation


'Inevitable evils'


The Sociology of Prejudice


Symbol and Interpretation


Escape from Freedom


Of Necessity, Virtue



Waterloo Story


Politics as Destiny?


'The uniform of my generation'


Homo Clausus


Bovarysm, Disavowal, Bad Faith


The Age of Ideals


'That's the way of the world'


Reality principle, realism, irony


The Automaton's Rights


'A parody, perhaps ...'


Socialization Rejected


'A certain amount of impudence'


Streben


'All ties cast off'


Unhappy Ending


Irony and Irrationality


The Fall of Wisdom


The Waterloo Paradox



The World of Prose


Parvenir


In Fashion


The Balzacian Narrator (I): 'Nothing is hidden from me'


The Balzacian Narrator (II): 'At a time like this it would be a wonderful spectacle ...'


Capitalism and Narration


Fifty Thousand Young Men. One Hundred Thousand Novels


On the Genesis of Tolerance


'Narration'


Balzac At His Very Worst


The World of Prose


Dialectics of Desire


'And in return, what do you hope to take?'


Forever Young?



The Conspiracy of the Innocents


The Confinement of Youth


The White and the Black


Very Common Persons


Anthropological Garden


'In this enlightened age ...'


The Devil's Party


The Hero in Exile


Ur-Novel


The Great Tribunal of the World


'Narratio' versus Novel


'To alter the world a little'


Eliot's Narrator: Maturity as Humour


End of a Genre



'A Useless Longing for Myself': The Crisis of the European Bildungsroman, 1898-1914


Notes


Index