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04853aam a2200457 i 4500 001 BC3013BAEB9D11E7A465B32097128E48 003 SILO 005 20171228010216 008 160314s2016 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2016003528 020 $a 1138655597 020 $a 9781138655591 035 $a (OCoLC)928606542 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d BDX $d OCLCF $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PN3491 $b .S93 2016 082 00 $a 809.3/9358208 $2 23 100 1 $a Szakolczai, AÌrpaÌd, $e author. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90698811 245 10 $a Novels and the sociology of the contemporary / $c Arpad Szakolczai. 264 1 $a New York : $b Routledge, $c 2016. 300 $a xi, 374 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Routledge studies in social and political thought ; $v 110 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 520 $a "This book substantiates two claims. First, the modern world was not simply produced by "objective" factors, rooted in geographical discoveries and scientific inventions, to be traced to economic, technological or political factors, but is the outcome of social, cultural and spiritual processes. Among such factors, beyond the Protestant ethic (Max Weber), the rise of the absolutist state and its disciplinary network (Michel Foucault), or court society (Norbert Elias), a prime role is played by theatre. The modern reality is deeply theatricalized. Second, a special access for studying this theatricalized world is offered by novels. The best classical novels not simply can be interpreted as describing a world "like" the theatre, but they capture and present a world that has become thoroughly transformed into a global theatre. The theatre effectively transformed the world, and classical novels effectively analyze this "theatricalized" reality - much better than the main instruments supposedly destined to study reality, philosophy and sociology. Thus, instead of using the technique of sociology to analyze novels, the book will treat novels as a "royal road" to analyze a theatricalized reality, in order to find our way back to a genuine and meaningful life "-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 0 $a Preface -- Introduction: novels and the problem of reality -- The triple origins of the modern novel -- The Don Quixote chronotope: paradoxical paradoxes, or the games of Cervantes -- The Rabelais chronotope: the mysteries of fairground economics -- The English chronotope: the cruel illusionism of realism -- Actors, spectators and critics in the sublime theatre of the public arena -- Sublime confusion: the aesthetics of intensity as an anti-Platonic revolt -- Diderot, the trickster-outsider-critic: the actor as god in an enlightened world -- Lessing, the trickster-outsider-critic: the birth of German enlightenment out of the spirit of theatre -- The Goethe chronotope: in between panopticon and circus -- Johann Wolfgang Goethe: demonic formation and theatrical re-formation -- Wilhelm Meister as Goethe's self-overcoming: from theatrical mission to walking -- Promethean modernity in Faust: from asserting titanic poiesis to diagnosing alchemic technology -- Beneath and beyond romantic enlightenment -- Enlightened romantics: from German titanism to French satanism -- Charles Dickens: retrieving the reasons of the heart -- Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky: standing up again after the demonic splits of reason -- Conclusion: towards the sacrificial carnival. 650 0 $a Fiction $x History and criticism. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85048060 650 0 $a Reality in literature. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85111774 650 0 $a Life in literature. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94006257 650 0 $a Literature and society. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85077572 650 0 $a Civilization, Modern, in literature. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94003779 650 7 $a Civilization, Modern, in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00863110 650 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00923709 650 7 $a Life in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00998285 650 7 $a Literature and society. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01000096 650 7 $a Reality in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01091250 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411635 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411635 776 08 $i Electronic version: $a Szakolczai, AÌrpaÌd. $t Novels and the sociology of the contemporary. $d New York : Routledge, 2016 $z 9781315622439 $w (OCoLC)945169981 $w (OCoLC)945169981 830 0 $a Routledge studies in social and political thought ; $v 110. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96005040 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191211032525.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=BC3013BAEB9D11E7A465B32097128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search