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: The breakdown of traditional narrative structures and the use of metafiction (novels about writing novels).

Dok je modernistički roman (Džojs, Volf) imao epistemološku dominantu (kako znamo svijet?), postmoderni roman ima ontološku : u kojem svijetu se nalazimo? Postoji li više svjetova istovremeno?

For the Greeks, the world made sense. The stars, the city-state, the gods, and the hero’s heart all vibrated on the same frequency. When Achilles was angry, the crops failed. When Odysseus was clever, Athena smiled. There was no gap between the inside (the soul) and the outside (the world). teorija romana

But the book survives as a masterpiece of melancholy. It teaches us that to pick up a novel is to admit that we are lost. We read because, like Don Quixote, we hope to find a world worthy of our hearts.

: He introduced this concept to describe how time and space are interconnected within a narrative, which defines different types of novels (e.g., the "adventure novel" vs. the "biographical novel"). 2. Georg Lukács: The Novel as "Modern Epic" : The breakdown of traditional narrative structures and

Lukács begins with a haunting premise: The ancient Greeks lived in what he calls "transcendental homelessness"—but in a good way.

Lukács wasn’t just a theorist; he was a literary critic. He broke the modern novel into three psychological types, each trying to solve the problem of "homelessness": For the Greeks, the world made sense

One of the most influential works in this field is Georg Lukács’s (1916). Lukács famously described the novel as "the epic of a world that has been abandoned by God."

We often talk about novels as if they’ve always existed. But for most of human history, stories were sung (epics), performed (tragedies), or told as parables. Then, somewhere between Don Quixote and Madame Bovary , something shifted.

This collection serves as a "solid piece" because it synthesizes major global theories—including those of , Roland Barthes , and Viktor Shklovsky —into one comprehensive study of the genre's evolution from realism to postmodernism. Comparison Table: Bakhtin vs. Lukács Bakhtin's Approach Lukács's Approach Core Focus Language and Discourse Philosophy and History The Hero A site of multiple voices A "problematic" individual seeking meaning Worldview "Open-ended" and evolving "Fragmented" and modern Key Term Heteroglossia / Dialogism Transcendental Homelessness

: How hypertext and interactive storytelling are challenging our very definition of what a "novel" is.