TY  - BOOK
AU  - Layoun,Mary N.
TI  - Travels of a Genre: the Modern Novel and Ideology
T2  - Princeton Legacy Library
SN  - 9781400860807
AV  - PN3503 
U1  - 809.3/04 20
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Fiction
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Comparative literature
KW  - European and Oriental
KW  - Oriental and European
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - Asian
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Literary
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - 7
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Cover; Contents; Preface ; 1. Fictional Genealogies ; 2. The God Abandons the Murderess: Or, Murder as Opposition? ; 3. In the Flickering Light of UMM Hāshim's Lamp ; 4. Of Noisy Trains and Grass Pillows ; 5. Doubling: The (Immigrant) Worker as (Exiled) Writer ; 6. Deserts of Memory ; 7. Hunting Whales and Elephants, (Re)Producing Narratives ; 8. In Other Words, In Other Worlds: In Place of a Conclusion ; Bibliography ; Index
N2  - If the modern Western novel is linked to the rise of a literate bourgeoisie with particular social values and narrative expectations, to what extent can that history of the novel be anticipated in non-Western contexts? In this bold, insightful work Mary Layoun investigates the development of literary practice in the Greek, Arabic, and Japanese cultures, which initially considered the novel a foreign genre, a cultural accoutrement of ""Western"" influence. Offering a textual and contextual analysis of six novels representing early twentieth-century and contemporary literary fiction in these
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