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Essentials of the theory of fiction / edited by Michael J. Hoffman and Patrick D. Murphy.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fiction--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (521 p.)
- Edition:
- 3rd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- The art of fiction / Henry James
- Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown / Virginia Woolf
- Flat and round characters / E.M. Forster
- Epic and novel / M.M. Bakhtin
- Spatial form in modern literature / Joseph Frank
- Writing and the novel / Roland Barthes
- Distance and point of view: an essay in classification / Wayne Booth
- Marxist aesthetics and literary realism / Georg Lukacs
- The concept of character in fiction / William H. Gass
- Time and narrative in A la recherche du temps perdu / Gerard Genette
- Discourse: nonnarrated stories / Seymour Chatman
- Reading as construction / Tzvetan Todorov
- The literature of replenishment / John Barth
- The blackness of blackness: a critique on the sign and the signifying monkey / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- Reading for the plot / Peter Brooks
- Breaking the sentence; breaking the sequence / Rachel Blau Duplessis
- The documentary novel and the problem of borders / Barbara Foley
- Politics, literary form, and a feminist poetics of the novel / Joanne S. Frye
- "The pastime of past time": fiction, history, historiographical metafiction / Linda Hutcheon
- "Building up from fragments": the oral memory process in some recent African-American written narratives / Helen Lock
- Scheherazade's children: magical realism and postmodern fiction / Wendy B. Faris
- The textualization of the reader in magical realist fiction / Jon Thiem
- Are fictional worlds possible? / Ruth Ronen
- Chronoschisms / Ursula K. Heise
- Queering narratology / Susan S. Lanser
- A brief story of postmodern plot / Catherine Burgass
- On voice / John Brenkman
- What interactive narratives do that print narratives cannot / J. Yellowlees Douglas
- A media migration: toward a potential literature / Joseph Tabbi.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-02185-4
- 9786613021854
- 0-8223-8659-3
- OCLC:
- 226067942
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