The theory of the novel
The theory of the novel. A historical-philosophical attempt on the forms of the great epic is a literary theoretical study by Georg Lukács (1885–1971) published in the Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft in 1916 and is considered one of the most important contributions to the theory of the novel .
expenditure
- Georg Lukács: The theory of the novel. A historical-philosophical attempt on the forms of the great epic. Berlin: Cassirer 1920 (German first edition)
- Georg Lukács: The theory of the novel. A historical-philosophical attempt on the forms of the great epic. Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2009 (selection of works in individual volumes; vol. 2)
literature
- R.-P. Janz: On the historicity and topicality of the "theory of the novel" by Georg Lukács, in: Jahrbuch d. dt. Schillergesellschaft 22 (1978), pp. 674-699.
- Jochen Vogt : Aspects of narrative prose, 7th edition Opladen 1990, Kap.V.
- Inga Kalinowski: The demonic in the "theory of the novel" by Georg Lukács. Hamburg 2015
- Rüdiger Dannemann, Maud Meyzaud, Philipp Weber (eds :): One hundred years of “transcendental homelessness”. Georg Lukács' “Theory of the Novel” reread. Bielefeld 2018. ISBN 978-3-8498-1232-4 .
Web links
- Literature from and about The theory of the novel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Asteris Koutoulas : Essay on the "theory of the novel"
- "The theory of the novel" in: Invitation to literary studies
- Till Kinzler: Review of the 2009 edition.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Georg von Lukács: The theory of the novel. A historical-philosophical attempt on the forms of the great epic. In: Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft 11 (1916) , pp. 225–271 and 390–431.