Essentials Of The Theory Of Fiction,9780822335214

Essentials Of The Theory Of Fiction

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Edition: 3rd
ISBN13: 9780822335214
ISBN10: 0822335212
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-06-22
Publisher(s): Duke Univ Pr
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Summary

What accounts for the power of stories to both entertain us and interpret our world? This question has compelled the attention of storytellers and students of literature alike--particularly in recent decades--and their answers have opened an important window on larger questions about the nature of culture, as well as of interpretation and understanding. This second edition of 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.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Third Edition vii
Introduction 1(490)
1 HENRY JAMES
The Art of Fiction
13(8)
2 VIRGINIA WOOLF
Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown
21(14)
3 E.M. FORSTER
Flat and Round Characters
35(8)
4 M.M. BAKHTIN
Epic and Novel
43(18)
5 JOSEPH FRANK
Spatial Form in Modern Literature
61(14)
6 ROLAND BARTHES
Writing and the Novel
75(8)
7 WAYNE BOOTH
Distance and Point of View: An Essay in Classification
83(18)
8 GEORG LUKÁCS
Marxist Aesthetics and Literary Realism
101(12)
9 WILLIAM H. GASS
The Concept of Character in Fiction
113(8)
10 GÉRARD GENETTE
Time and Narrative in A la recherche du temps perdu
121(18)
11 SEYMOUR CHATMAN
Discourse: Nonnarrated Stories
139(12)
12 TZVETAN TODOROV
Reading as Construction
151(14)
13 JOHN BARTH
The Literature of Replenishment
165(12)
14 HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR.
The Blackness of Blackness: A Critique on the Sign and the Signifying Monkey
177(24)
15 PETER BROOKS
Reading for the Plot
201(20)
16 RACHEL BLAU DUPLESSIS
Breaking the Sentence, Breaking the Sequence
221(18)
17 BARBARA FOLEY
The Documentary Novel and the Problem of Borders
239(16)
18 JOANNE S. FRYE
Politics, Literary Form, and a Feminist Poetics of the Novel
255(20)
19 LINDA HUTCHEON
"The Pastime of Past Time": Fiction, History, Historiographical Metafiction
275(22)
20 HELEN LOCK
"Building Up from Fragments": The Oral Memory Process in Some Recent African-American Written Narratives
297(14)
21 WENDY B. FARIS
Scheherazade's Children: Magical Realism and Postmodern Fiction
311(28)
22 JON THIEM
The Textualization of the Reader in Magical Realist Fiction
339(12)
23 RUTH RONEN
Are Fictional Worlds Possible?
351(10)
24 URSULA K. HEISE
Chronoschisms
361(26)
25 SUSAN S. LANSER
Queering Narratology
387(12)
26 CATHERINE BURGASS
A Brief Story of Postmodern Plot
399(12)
27 JOHN BRENKMAN
On Voice
411(32)
28 J. YELLOWLEES DOUGLAS
What Interactive Narratives Do That Print Narratives Cannot
443(28)
29 JOSEPH TABBI
A Media Migration: Toward a Potential Literature
471(20)
Biographical Notes 491(4)
Permissions 495(4)
Index 499

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