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Essentials of the theory of fiction /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hoffman, Michael J., 1939- (Editor ), Murphy, Patrick D., 1951- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2005.
Edición:Third edition.
Colección:E-Duke books scholarly collection.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 Lukács
  • The concept of character in fiction / William H. Gass
  • Time and narrative in A la recherche du temps perdu / Gérard 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.