Introduction; PART 1. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; I. The Novelistic Imagination; II. The Proto-Novel; PART 2. THE COURTLY NOVEL; III. The Adventure Novel; IV. The Sentimental Novel; V. The Biographical Novel and the Didactic Novel; PART 3. THE POPULAR NOVEL; VI. The Humorous Novel; VII. The Idyllic Novel; PART 4. THE MODERN NOVEL; VIII. Symbolism and Modernity; IX. Symbolism of the Past; X. The Novel of the Recent Past and the Present; XI. The Symbolism of the Future; XII. The Modern Popular Novel; Epilogue; Theses on the Novel
Biography
Luis Beltrán Almería (Zaragoza, 1955), Professor at the University of Zaragoza (Spain), is the author of over a dozen books and more than 150 articles, some of which have been translated into English, French, Italian, German, and Russian. His most recent publications include GENVS, Genealogía de la imaginación literaria (2017), Estética de la novela (2021), and Estética de la Modernidad (2025). He is the Spanish-language editor of Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of the novel (2019) and György Lukács's theory of the novel (2020). He has led the GENUS Research Group, funded by the Government of Aragon (Spain).
