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1. www.theparisreview.org › blog › 2020/06/25The Gimmick of the Novel of Ideas - The Paris Review

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   Jun 25, 2020 · Rather than hunting for less embarrassing ways to stabilize it, we might define the novel of ideas precisely by its intimate relation to the gimmick form. Incorporating the suspicion that attends a genre into its definition has benefits, including that of making the definition more concrete.

2. link.springer.com › content › pdfIan McEwan: Contemporary Realism and the Novel of Ideas

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   lia, McEwan takes a narrative stand against what he refers to in his novel Atonement as 'oblivion and despair'.6 Love and optimism and new life are allowed to succeed. Causal realism, the way our understanding of reality shapes our sense experience of it, is as important to this narrative as psycho­ logical realism.

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   Jun 26, 2020 · Arising by most accounts in the last decades of the nineteenth century, the novel of ideas reflects the challenge posed by the integration of externally developed concepts long before the arrival of conceptual art.

4. www.cambridge.org › core › booksThe Novel of Ideas (Chapter 4) - The Cambridge Companion to ...

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   Jun 24, 2019 · McEwan’s novels of ideas consistently explore and demonstrate unexpected capabilities of the genre. They unfold the drama and texture of their ideational content, from the level of plot device and set piece down to that of lexical units. Ideas animate but never overwhelm aesthetics.

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5. link.springer.com › chapter › 10Ian McEwan: Contemporary Realism and the Novel of Ideas

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   My concern in this essay is to further an understanding of Ian McEwan’s long fiction by positioning it within the genre of realist fiction in general and the novel of ideas in particular.

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   novel of ideas with aesthetic failure, bemoaning the tendency to stuff undigested essays into the mouths of sketchily drawn characters, and complaining that novels of ideas give dramatic dialogue precedence over narration and summary. The insertion of the “readymade” idea into the text is a “gimmick”.

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   What makes a novel of ideas a gimmick?

   • Moreover, as a genre in which storytelling strains to accommodate synchronic concepts—inverting Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, in which philosophy rediscovers its reliance on diachronicity, narration, and a kind of free indirect style—the novel of ideas recalls one of gimmick’s fundamental features: its appearance of “working too hard.”

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   What is a novel of ideas?

   • Novel of ideas. The character of each personage must be implied, as far as possible, in the ideas of which he is the mouthpiece. In so far as theories are rationalizations of sentiments, instincts, dispositions of soul, this is feasible.

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   What is the story/discourse relationship in the novel of ideas?

   • Arguably the essence of narrative, the story/discourse relation underscores Lukács’s account of the novel as a “dialectic of form giving and mimesis, where form demands immanence and the world mimetically transcribed resists form.” But the novel of ideas throws a wrench in this dialectic.

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   What makes McEwan's novels of ideas unique?

   • McEwan’s novels of ideas consistently explore and demonstrate unexpected capabilities of the genre. They unfold the drama and texture of their ideational content, from the level of plot device and set piece down to that of lexical units. Ideas animate but never overwhelm aesthetics.

   4 - The Novel of Ideas - Cambridge University Press & Assessment

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   What is a “theory novel”?

   • Whether executed as science fiction, bildungsroman, or more recently, the satirical form Nicholas Dames calls the “theory novel,” the novel of ideas is “artful,” with all the equivocality this term brings.

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   Is the novel of ideas an exception or a norm?

   • In an enactment of this problem, Lionel Trilling’s essays show him wavering between treating the “novel of ideas” as exception and norm: at times as an emerging form endemic to late twentieth-century “mass-ideological” society; at others as a synonym for the novel per usual, rooted in class conflict since the dawn of the nineteenth century.

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8. www.artsjournal.org › 2020/06/29 › the-novel-ofThe ‘Novel Of Ideas’ Is A Gimmick, But One That Sometimes ...

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   Jun 29, 2020 · “Whether executed as science fiction, bildungsroman, or more recently, the satirical form Nicholas Dames calls the ‘theory novel,’ the novel of ideas is ‘artful,’ with all the equivocality this term brings.