Essentials Of The Theory Of Fiction

by Hoffman, Michael J.; Murphy, Patrick D.

• ISBN13: 9780822335214
• ISBN10: 0822335212
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-06-22
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

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