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First published 2025 by Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Müller-Sievers, Helmut author

Title: The novel experience : reading fiction with Nāgārjuna, Nietzsche, and William James / Helmut Müller-Sievers.

Description: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2025. | “A Signale book” | Includes bibliographical references.

Identifiers: LCCN 2025019670 (print) | LCCN 2025019671 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501785627 hardcover | ISBN 9781501785634 paperback | ISBN 9781501785658 epub | ISBN 9781501785641 pdf

Subjects: LCSH: Fiction—History and criticism—Theory, etc. | Reader-response criticism | LCGFT: Literary criticism

Classification: LCC PN3331 .M846 2025 (print) | LCC PN3331 (ebook) | DDC 809.3—dc23/eng/20250513

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2025019670

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2025019671