{"product_id":"inventing-the-novel-r-bracht-branham-9780198841265","title":"Inventing the Novel: Bakhtin and Petronius Face to Face","description":"\u003cem\u003eInventing the Novel\u003c\/em\u003e uses the work of the Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) to explore the ancient origins of the modern novel. The analysis focuses on one of the most elusive works of classical antiquity, the \u003cem\u003eSatyrica\u003c\/em\u003e, written by Nero's courtier, Petronius Arbiter (whose singular suicide, described by Tacitus, is as famous as his novel). Petronius was the most lauded ancient novelist of the twentieth century and the \u003cem\u003eSatyrica\u003c\/em\u003e served as the original model for F. Scott Fitzgerald's \u003cem\u003eThe Great Gatsby\u003c\/em\u003e (1925), as well as providing the epigraph for T. S. Eliot's \u003cem\u003eThe Waste Land\u003c\/em\u003e (1922), and the basis for \u003cem\u003eFellini Satyricon\u003c\/em\u003e (1969). Bakhtin's work on the novel was deeply informed by his philosophical views: if, as a phenomenologist, he is a philosopher of consciousness, as a student of the novel, he is a philosopher of the history of consciousness, and it is the role of the novel in this history that held his attention. This volume seeks to lay out an argument in four parts that supports Bakhtin's sweeping assertion that the \u003cem\u003eSatyrica\u003c\/em\u003e plays an \"immense\" role in the history of the novel, beginning in Chapter 1 with his equally striking claim that the novel originates as a new way of representing time and proceeding to the question of polyphony in Petronius and the ancient novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e R. Bracht Branham\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198841264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198841265\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/27\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 242\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.70h x 5.50w x 0.80d","brand":"R. Bracht Branham","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43946301620479,"sku":"9780198841265","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_7c3a3c7f-ebb3-47b0-8e11-c84778006ae1.jpg?v=1681512433","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/inventing-the-novel-r-bracht-branham-9780198841265","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}