Essentials of the Theory of Fiction

Häftad, Engelska, 2005

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What accounts for the power of stories to both entertain and illuminate? This question has long compelled the attention of storytellers and students of literature alike, and over the past several decades it has opened up broader dialogues about the nature of culture and interpretation. This third edition of the bestselling Essentials of the Theory of Fiction provides a comprehensive view of the theory of fiction from the nineteenth century through modernism and postmodernism to the present. It offers a sample of major theories of fictional technique while emphasizing recent developments in literary criticism. The essays cover a variety of topics, including voice, point of view, narration, sequencing, gender, and race. Ten new selections address issues such as oral memory in African American fiction, temporality, queer theory, magical realism, interactive narratives, and the effect of virtual technologies on literature. For students and generalists alike, Essentials of the Theory of Fiction is an invaluable resource for understanding how fiction works.Contributors. M. M. Bakhtin, John Barth, Roland Barthes, Wayne Booth, John Brenkman, Peter Brooks, Catherine Burgass, Seymour Chatman, J. Yellowlees Douglas, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Wendy B. Faris, Barbara Foley, E. M. Forster, Joseph Frank, Joanne S. Frye, William H. Gass, Henry Louis Gates Jr., GÉrard Genette, Ursula K. Heise, Michael J. Hoffman, Linda Hutcheon, Henry James, Susan S. Lanser, Helen Lock, Georg LukÁcs, Patrick D. Murphy, Ruth Ronen, Joseph Tabbi, Jon Thiem, Tzvetan Todorov, Virginia Woolf

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Utgivningsdatum:2005-07-06
Mått:156 x 235 x 31 mm
Vikt:753 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:520
Upplaga:3
Förlag:Duke University Press
ISBN:9780822335214

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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.

Innehållsförteckning

Preface to the Third Edition viiIntroduction 11. The Art of Fiction / Henry James 132. Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown / Virginia Woolf 213. Flat and Round Characters / E. M. Forster 354. Epic and Novel / M. M. Bakhtin 435. Spatial Form in Modern Literature / Joseph Frank 616. Writing and the Novel / Roland Barthes 757. Distance and Point of View: An Essay in Classification / Wayne Booth 838. Marxist Aesthetics and Literary Realism / Georg Lukas 1019. The Concept of Character in Fiction / William H. Gass 11310. Time and Narrative in A la recherche du temps perdu / Gerard Genette 21211. Discourse: Nonnarrated Stories / Seymour Chatman 13912. Reading as Construction / Tzvetan Todorov 15213. The Literature of Replenishment / John Barth 16514. The Blackness of Blackness: A Critique on the Sign and the Signifying Monkey / Henry Louis Gates Jr. 17715. Reading for the Plot / Peter Brooks 20116. Breaking the Sentence; Breaking the Sequence / Rachel Blau Duplessis 22117. The Documentary Novel and the Problem of Borders / Barbara Foley 23918. Politics, Literary Form, and a Feminist Poetics of the Novel / Joanne S. Frye 25519. “The Pastime of Past Time”: Fiction, History, HistoriographicalMetafiction / Linda Hutcheon 27520. “Building Up from Fragments”: The Oral Memory Process in Some Recent African-American Written Narratives / Helen Lock 29721. Scheherazade’s Children: Magical Realism and Postmodern Fiction / Wendy B. Faris 31122. The Textualization of the Reader in Magical Realist Fiction / Jon Thiem 33923. Are Fictional Worlds Possible? / Ruth Ronen 35124. Chronoschisms / Ursula K. Heise 36125. Queering Narratology / Susan S. Lanser 38726. A Brief Story of Postmodern Plot / Cathrine Burgass 39927. On Voice / John Brenkman 41128. What Interactive Narratives Do That Print Narratives Cannot / J. Yellowlees Douglas 44329. A Media Migration: Toward a Potential Literature / Joseph Tabbi 471Biographical Notes 491Permissions 495Index 499