The “novel of culture” and its historical poetics
The “novel of culture” and its historical poetics

Summary/Abstract: The “novel of culture” remains in the focus of modern literary criticism. The general cultural synthesis present in all its researchers, is connected with the borderline position of the “novel of culture”. Its origins are discovered in Metamorphoseon by Apuleis (the contacts of Egyptian, Grecian and Roman cultures in it). The motif of wandering through the space of culture typifies the “novel of culture” (Landscape Painted with Tea by Milorad Pavić). In Europe, the origins of the “novel of culture” appeared in the 18th-19th centuries (Wilhelm Meisters Wanderungen by Goethe). The “art romance” thus takes shape as a kind of the “novel of culture” in European and American Romanticism (from Franz Sternbalds Wanderungen by Tieck to The Marble Faun by Hawthorne). Different historical modifications of the “novel of culture” undergo alterations in Symbolism (from A Rebours by Huysmans), in modern (from Ulysses by Joyce) and especially in postmodern fiction.

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