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Social Formalism: The Novel in Theory from Henry James to the Present

Social Formalism: The Novel in Theory from Henry James to the Present

Hale, Dorothy J.

Paperback

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0804733562
ISBN13: 9780804733564
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Jul 1 1998
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.59 Width: 6.03 Depth: 9.03
Language: English

In recent decades, literary critics have praised novel theory for abandoning its formalist roots and defining the novel as a vehicle of social discourse. The old school of novel theory has long been associated with Henry James; the new school allies itself with the Russian theorist Mikhail Bakhtin. In this book, the author argues that actually it was the compatibility of Bakhtin with James that prompted Anglo-American theorists to embrace Bakhtin with such enthusiasm. Far from rejecting James, in other words, recent novel theorists have only refined James's foundational recharacterization of the novel as the genre that does not simply represent identity through its content but actually instantiates it through its form.

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