Theory of the Novel
Study Cycle: 2
Lectures: 30
Seminars: 0
Tutorials: 0
ECTS credit: 3
Lecturer(s): prof. dr. Virk Tomislav
The lectures offer a comprehensive survey of the theories of the novel and novelistic poetics from the beginnings in the antiquity to the 21st century (antique rethorics, Cervantes, Huet, Blankenburg, Hegel, Stendhal, Zola etc.). The course focuses particularly on the leading theories of the 20th century (Y Gasset, Forster, Lukács, Bahtin, Robbe-Grillet, J. Kristeva, Pirjevec, J. Kos). It critically presents the contemporary genealogical problematics and tries to define the theory of the novel with the help of modern gnoseological approaches.
J. Kos, Literarna teorija, Ljubljana 2001
J. Kos, »Ep in roman na Slovenskem«, SRL 1991, 4, 371–389
J. Kos, Roman, Ljubljana 1983
J. Kos, Svetovni roman. Ljubljana, 2009.
C. Bode, The Novel: An Introduction. Chichester ; Oxford ; Malden : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
T. Virk, Možnosti in nemožnosti Pirjevčeve teorije romana, PK 20/1997, 2, 1–28.
T. Virk, »Kosova teorija in zgodovina romana«. V: Kos, Svetovni roman, Ljubljana 2009. Str. 627-664.
V. Žmegač, Povijesna poetika romana, Zagreb 1989
D. Pirjevec, Evropski roman, Ljubljana 1979
J. Ryan, The Novel after Theory. New York : Columbia University Press, 2012