Overview
- Chivalry in the modern novel
- Studies on Crnjanski, Joyce, Thomas Mann, and Bulgakov
- With an extensive bibliography considering Serbian and international scholarship
Part of the book series: Schriften zur Weltliteratur/Studies on World Literature (SWSWL, volume 12)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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About this book
According to the customary literary-historical and theoretical notion, the fact that the first modern novel represents a parody or travesty of the chivalric ideal merits no particular attention. Failing to become attuned to the real role of the chivalric ideal at the beginning of the era of the modern novel, commentators missed the chance to adequately review the role of chivalry at the end of that period. The modern novel did not only begin, but also ended with a travesty of the chivalric ideal. The deep need of a significant number of modernist writers to measure their own time according to the ideals of the high and late Middle Ages cannot, therefore, be explained by a set of literary-historical, spiritual-historical or social circumstances. The predilection of a range of twentieth century novelists for a distant feudal past suggests that there exists a fundamental poetic connection between the modern (or at least the modernist) novel and the ideals of chivalry.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Branko Vraneš, PhD, is assistant professor at the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade, teaching Serbian Literature of the 20th Century at the Department for Serbian and South Slavic Literatures, Visiting Researcher at the Department of Comparative Literature at Harvard University in 2014.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Knights of Modernism
Book Subtitle: The Chivalric Ideal in the World Novel of the 20th Century
Authors: Branko Vraneš
Series Title: Schriften zur Weltliteratur/Studies on World Literature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-61932-2
Publisher: J.B. Metzler Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: J.B. Metzler Humanities (German Language)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-61931-5Published: 08 June 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-61932-2Published: 07 June 2021
Series ISSN: 2946-0549
Series E-ISSN: 2946-0557
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 270
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations
Topics: European Literature, Literature, general, Comparative Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Medieval Literature