Aspects Of The Novel
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
At the intersection of art and craft, Aspects of the Novel stands as one of the most illuminating and enduring works of literary criticism ever written, presenting E. M. Forster's celebrated Clark Lectures delivered at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1927. With characteristic wit and intellectual elegance, Forster dissects the novel as a form, examining its essential components — story, people, plot, fantasy, prophecy, pattern, and rhythm — through a rich tapestry of examples drawn from canonical works by authors such as Tolstoy, Austen, Dickens, and Dostoevsky. Far from a dry academic treatise, this work crackles with personality and conviction, arguing that the novel's primary task is the illumination of human life in all its complexity and contradiction. Forster's style is conversational yet deeply erudite, dismantling the pomposity of conventional criticism and replacing it with genuine insight and a lifelong reader's passion. The text champions the inner life of characters above all else, introducing the now-famous distinction between flat and round characters that has become indispensable to the vocabulary of literary studies. Decades after its first publication, Aspects of the Novel retains its power to challenge, instruct, and inspire — leaving the reader to wonder whether the novel, as Forster understood it, has yet been surpassed as a mirror of the human condition.
Author: E. M. Forster
Format: Hardback
Genre: Literary theory
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
At the intersection of art and craft, Aspects of the Novel stands as one of the most illuminating and enduring works of literary criticism ever written, presenting E. M. Forster's celebrated Clark Lectures delivered at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1927. With characteristic wit and intellectual elegance, Forster dissects the novel as a form, examining its essential components — story, people, plot, fantasy, prophecy, pattern, and rhythm — through a rich tapestry of examples drawn from canonical works by authors such as Tolstoy, Austen, Dickens, and Dostoevsky. Far from a dry academic treatise, this work crackles with personality and conviction, arguing that the novel's primary task is the illumination of human life in all its complexity and contradiction. Forster's style is conversational yet deeply erudite, dismantling the pomposity of conventional criticism and replacing it with genuine insight and a lifelong reader's passion. The text champions the inner life of characters above all else, introducing the now-famous distinction between flat and round characters that has become indispensable to the vocabulary of literary studies. Decades after its first publication, Aspects of the Novel retains its power to challenge, instruct, and inspire — leaving the reader to wonder whether the novel, as Forster understood it, has yet been surpassed as a mirror of the human condition.