Essentials of the Theory of Fiction

Published by Duke University Press 2005

Essentials of the Theory of Fiction

Edited by: Michael J. Hoffman and Patrick D. Murphy
With contributions by: Rachel Blau DuPlessis , Susan S. Lanser , Catherine Burgass and Joseph Tabbi

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822386599

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About this book

A third edition of this anthology of the most influential and comprehensive writing on the theory of fiction from the 19th century, through modernism and postmodernism to the present.

Author / Editor information

Michael J. Hoffman is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California, Davis. Among his books are Critical Essays on Gertrude Stein and The Subversive Vision: American Romanticism in Literature.

Patrick D. Murphy is Professor of English at the University of Central Florida, Orlando. His most recent books are Farther Afield in the Study of Nature-Oriented Literature and A Place for Wayfaring: The Poetry and Prose of Gary Snyder.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface to the Third Edition Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. The Art of Fiction Henry James Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
2. Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown Virginia Woolf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
3. Flat and Round Characters E. M. Forster Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
4. Epic and Novel M. M. Bakhtin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
5. Spatial Form in Modern Literature Joseph Frank Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
6. Writing and the Novel Roland Barthes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
7. Distance and Point of View: An Essay in Classification Wayne Booth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
8. Marxist Aesthetics and Literary Realism Georg Lukács Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
9. The Concept of Character in Fiction William H. Gass Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
10. Time and Narrative in A la recherche du temps perdu Gérard Genette Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
11. Discourse: Nonnarrated Stories Seymour Chatman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
12. Reading as Construction Tzvetan Todorov Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
13. The Literature of Replenishment John Barth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
14. The Blackness of Blackness: A Critique on the Sign and the Signifying Monkey Henry Louis Gates Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
15. Reading for the Plot Peter Brooks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
16. Breaking the Sentence; Breaking the Sequence Rachel Blau Duplessis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
17. The Documentary Novel and the Problem of Borders Barbara Foley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
18. Politics, Literary Form, and a Feminist Poetics of the Novel Joanne S. Frye Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
19. ‘‘The Pastime of Past Time’’: Fiction, History, Historiographical Metafiction Linda Hutcheon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
20. ‘‘Building Up from Fragments’’: The Oral Memory Process in Some Recent African-American Written Narratives Helen Lock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
21. Scheherazade’s Children: Magical Realism and Postmodern Fiction Wendy B. Faris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
22. The Textualization of the Reader in Magical Realist Fiction Jon Thiem Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
23. Are Fictional Worlds Possible? Ruth Ronen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	351
24. Chronoschisms Ursula K. Heise Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	361
25. Queering Narratology Susan S. Lanser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	387
26. A Brief Story of Postmodern Plot Catherine Burgass Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	399
27. On Voice John Brenkman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	411
28. What Interactive Narratives Do That Print Narratives Cannot J. Yellowlees Douglas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	443
29. A Media Migration: Toward a Potential Literature Joseph Tabbi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	471
Biographical Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	491
Permissions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	495
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	499

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 520

eBook

Published: July 6, 2005
ISBN: 9780822386599