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020			_a9781441177049
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035			_a(OCoLC)496962025
040			_aUKM _cUKM _dBTCTA _dZPX _dDLC _dBD-DhEWU _beng
041			_aeng
050	0	0	_aPN3451 _b.M66 2010
082	0	4	_a809.3 _bMON 2010
100	1		_aMoore, Steven, _d1951- _913027
245	1	4	_aThe novel : _ban alternative history : beginnings to 1600 / _cSteven Moore.
260			_aNew York : _bContinuum, _cc2010.
300			_avi, 698 p. ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 653-679) and indexes.
505			_tTOC _aThe ancient novel. Egyptian ; Mesopotamian ; Hebrew ; Greek ; Roman ; Christian -- The medieval novel. Irish ; Icelandic ; Byzantine ; Jewish ; Arthurian -- The Renaissance novel. Italian ; Spanish ; French ; English -- The Mesoamerican novel -- The Eastern novel. Indian ; Tibetan ; Arabic ; Persian -- The Far Eastern novel. Japanese ; Chinese.
520			_aSummary: Encyclopedic in scope and heroically audacious, The Novel : An Alternative History is the first attempt in over a century to tell the complete story of our most popular literary form. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the novel did not originate in 18th-century England, nor even with Don Quixote, but is coeval with civilization itself. After a pugnacious introduction, in which Moore defends innovative, demanding novelists against their conservative critics, the book relaxes into a world tour of the premodern novel, beginning in ancient Egypt and ending in 16th-century China, with many exotic ports-of-call: Greek romances; Roman satires; medieval Sanskrit novels narrated by parrots; Byzantine erotic thrillers; 5000-page Arabian adventure novels; Icelandic sagas; delicate Persian novels in verse; Japanese war stories; even Mayan graphic novels. Throughout, Moore celebrates the innovators in fiction, tracing a continuum between these premodern experimentalists and their postmodern progeny. Irreverent, iconoclastic, informative, entertaining The Novel : An Alternative History is a landmark in literary criticism that will encourage readers to rethink the novel.
526			_aEnglish
590			_aTahur Ahmed
650		0	_aFiction _xHistory and criticism. _913028
856	4	2	_3Contributor biographical information _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1116/2010279268-b.html
856	4	1	_3Table of contents only _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1116/2010279268-t.html
856	4	2	_3Publisher description _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1213/2010279268-d.html
856	4	2	_3WorldCat details _uhttp://www.worldcat.org/title/novel-an-alternative-history-beginnings-to-1600/oclc/496962025&referer=brief_results
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