On the Historical NovelUniversity of Nebraska Press, 1984 - 134 Alessandro Manzoni was a giant of nineteenth-century European literature whose I promessi sposi (The Betrothed, 1928) is ranked with War and Peace as marking the summit of the historical novel. Manzoni wrote "Del romanzo storico" ("On the Historical Novel") during the twenty years he spent revising I promessi sposi. This first English translation of On the Historical Novel reflects the insights of a great craftsman and the misgivings of a profound thinker. It brings up to the nineteenth century the long war between poetry and history, tracing the idea of the historical novel from its origins in classical antiquity. It declares the historical novel--and presumably I promessi sposi itself--dead as a genre. Or perhaps it justifies I promessi sposi as the climax of a genre and the end of a stage of human consciousness. Its importance lies both in its prospective and in its retrospective contributions to literary debate. |
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... Aeneid . The founding of Rome was the perfect subject . Being mytho- logical , it did not invoke history proper ; but having in its back- ground a major event in secular history , it had genuine sociopoliti- cal appeal . Not that ...
... Aeneid . The founding of Rome was the perfect subject . Being mytho- logical , it did not invoke history proper ; but having in its back- ground a major event in secular history , it had genuine sociopoliti- cal appeal . Not that ...
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... Aeneid where Jove says to Juno , “ Quae iam finis erit coniux ? . . . Desine iam tan- dem . . . . Ulterius tentare veto , ” and after a brief exchange , “ Annuit his Iuno , et mentem laetata retorsit . " 36 This amounts to : the story ...
... Aeneid where Jove says to Juno , “ Quae iam finis erit coniux ? . . . Desine iam tan- dem . . . . Ulterius tentare veto , ” and after a brief exchange , “ Annuit his Iuno , et mentem laetata retorsit . " 36 This amounts to : the story ...
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... Aeneid was Rome . But neither Portuguese nor any other modern history can be fully evoked with a handful of al- lusions . One simply cannot cover it in its fullness by touching only on great and well - known events as Vergil did with ...
... Aeneid was Rome . But neither Portuguese nor any other modern history can be fully evoked with a handful of al- lusions . One simply cannot cover it in its fullness by touching only on great and well - known events as Vergil did with ...
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On the Historical Novel | 29 |
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