History of the Novel

The course represents the survey of the historical development of the novel from its beginnings in the antiquity. The course explains the main antique (Daphnis and Chloe, Aethiopica, Chariton's Kallirhoe, Satyricon, Metamorphoses) and medieval novels (such as Chrétien de Troyes's romances and The Roman de Tristan et Iseult), the Rennaisance (Gargantua and Pantagruel, Don Quixote), Baroque and Classicist novels (The Princess of Cleves / La Princesse de Cleves), Simplicius Simplicissimus), novels of the periods of the Enlightment (Robinson Crusoe, Jacques the Fatalist / Jacques le Fataliste, Candide), Pre-romanticism (The Sorrows of young Werther / Die Leiden des jungen Werthers, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship / Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre), Romanticism ((Waverley, The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr/ Die Lebensansichten des Katers Murr), Realism and Naturalism (The Red and the Black / Le Rouge et le Noir, Madame Bovary, Crime and Punishment / Prestupleniye i nakazaniye, War and Peace / Voyna i mir), Modernism (Ulixes, In search of Lost Time / A la recherche du Temps perdu, The Castle / Das Schloss, The Waves) and Existentialism (The Plague / La Peste, Nausea / La Nausée); nouveau roman (Triptih, Le Voyeur), novels of magical realism (One Hundred Years of Solitude / Cien anos de soledad, Hopscotch / Rayuela), Post-modernist novels (The Name of the Rose / Il Nome de la Rosa, The French Lieutenant's Woman), and post-colonial novels (Anthills of the Savannah, The Interpreters, Midnight's Children, The Hungry Tide, So Long a Letter).

- Mihail Bahtin: Teorija romana. Ljubljana, Cankarjeva založba, 1982. 431 str. COBISS.SI-ID - 22760960 (izbrana poglavja)
- Mihail Bahtin: Ustvarjanje Francoisa Rabelaisa in ljudska kultura srednjega veka in renesanse. Ljubljana, LUD Literatura, 2008. 478 str. COBISS.SI-ID - 238829824 (izbrana poglavja)
- Mihail Bahtin: Problemi poetike Dostojevskega. Ljubljana, LUD Literatura, 2007. 335 str. COBISS.SI-ID - 235059456 (Izbrana poglavja)
- Janko Kos: Svetovni roman. Ljubljana 2009. 671 str. COBISS.SI-ID – 248669184 (izbrana poglavja)
- Georg Lukacs: Teorija romana. Ljubljana 2000. 155 str. COBISS.SI-ID - 107330560 (izbrana poglavja)
- Vanesa Matajc, The historical novel, ideology and re-organization of the semiosphere : the case of the Slovene historical novel. Forum for world literature studies, ISSN 1949-8519, aug. 2011, vol. 3, no. 2, str. 255-266. COBISS.SI-ID 46620514
- Franco Moretti (ur.), The Novel. Princeton, Oxford 2007. 2 zv. 916 str., 950 str. COBISS.SI-ID - 39891042 (izbrana poglavja)
- Dušan Pirjevec, Evropski roman. Ljubljana 1979. 701 str. COBISS.SI-ID - 11544833 (izbrana poglavja)
- The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel. Tim Whitmarsh (ur.). Cambridge 2008. 392.str. COBISS.SI-ID - 37698658 (izbrana poglavja)
- The Cambridge companion to the modernist novel. Cambridge, New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007. 249 str. COBISS.SI-ID – 35881826 (izbrane enote)
- Tomo Virk. Razvoj postmodernističnega romana. V: Strah pred naivnostjo. Ljubljana: LUD Literatura, 2000. Str. 90-190. 261 str. COBISS.SI-ID – 105736960
- Mukoma wa Ngugi, The rise of the African novel : politics of language, identity, and ownership. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2018. 228 str. COBISS.SI-ID – 114147843
- Karim Mattar. Specters of world literature : orientalism, modernity, and the novel in the Middle East. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2020. 340 str. COBISS.SI-ID – 51595267 (izbrana poglavja)
- Valerie Babb. A history of the African American novel. Cambridge [etc.] : Cambridge University Press, 2017. 486 str. COBISS.SI-ID – 66564706 (izbrana poglavja)