3. The Emptiness of the Arabesque: Georg Lukács’s Theory of the Novel

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xvii
5. Abbreviations for Cited Material xix
6. Note on Translations and Quotations xxi
7. 1. Don Quixote and the Problem of Modernity 1
8. 2. Arabesques and the Modern Novel: Friedrich Schlegel’s Interpretation of Don Quixote 47
9. 3. The Emptiness of the Arabesque: Georg Lukács’s Theory of the Novel 82
10. 4. Ideas and Forms:Hermann Cohen’s Novelistics 120
11. 5. The Poetics of Resuscitation: Unamuno’s Anti-Novelistics 162
12. 6. Form Foreshortened: Ortega y Gasset’s Meditations on Don Quixote 197
13. 7. Don Quixote in Bakhtin 236
14. 8. Revolutions and the Novel 268
15. Notes 311
16. Bibliography 347
17. Index 377