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- The encyclopedic novel is a literary concept popularised by Edward Mendelson in two 1976 essays ("Encyclopedic Narrative" and "Gravity's Encyclopedia"). In Mendelson's formulation, encyclopedic novels "attempt to render the full range of knowledge and beliefs of a national culture, while identifying the ideological perspectives from which that culture shapes and interprets its knowledge". In more general terms, the encyclopedic novel is a long, complex work of fiction that incorporates extensive information (which is sometimes fictional itself), often from specialized disciplines of science and the humanities. Mendelson's essays examine the encyclopedic tendency in the history of literature, considering the Divine Comedy, Don Quixote, Faust, Moby-Dick, and War and Peace, with an emphasis on the modern Ulysses and Gravity's Rainbow. Commonly cited examples of encyclopedic novels in the postmodern period include, in addition to Pynchon, Richard Powers' The Gold Bug Variations (1991), David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest (1996), and Don DeLillo's Underworld (1997). Other literary critics have explored the concept since, attempting to understand the function and effect of "encyclopedic" narratives. (en)
- O Romance enciclopédico é um gênero literário escrito em prosa, cuja narrativa é geralmente marcada pela abrangência de temas e complexidade. O romance enciclopédico normalmente incorpora informações de disciplinas especializadas das ciências exatas, biológicas e teorias das ciências humanas. Além de conhecimentos teóricos e científicos, os romances enciclopédicos tentam muitas vezes apresentar toda a gama de conhecimentos e crenças de uma cultura nacional, ao mesmo tempo em que identificam as perspectivas ideológicas a partir das quais essa cultura molda e interpreta o conhecimento de uma determinada época. (pt)
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- The encyclopedic novel is a literary concept popularised by Edward Mendelson in two 1976 essays ("Encyclopedic Narrative" and "Gravity's Encyclopedia"). In Mendelson's formulation, encyclopedic novels "attempt to render the full range of knowledge and beliefs of a national culture, while identifying the ideological perspectives from which that culture shapes and interprets its knowledge". In more general terms, the encyclopedic novel is a long, complex work of fiction that incorporates extensive information (which is sometimes fictional itself), often from specialized disciplines of science and the humanities. Mendelson's essays examine the encyclopedic tendency in the history of literature, considering the Divine Comedy, Don Quixote, Faust, Moby-Dick, and War and Peace, with an emphasis o (en)
- O Romance enciclopédico é um gênero literário escrito em prosa, cuja narrativa é geralmente marcada pela abrangência de temas e complexidade. O romance enciclopédico normalmente incorpora informações de disciplinas especializadas das ciências exatas, biológicas e teorias das ciências humanas. (pt)
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- Encyclopedic novel (en)
- Romance enciclopédico (pt)
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