Theory of the Novel

Contents and Contributors:

Part One: Genre TheoryNorthrop Frye, from Anatomy of Criticism: Four EssaysE. D. Hirsch, from Validity in InterpretationClaudio Guillén, from Literature as System: Essays toward the Theory of Literary HistoryJonathan Culler, ""Toward a Theory of Non-Genre Literature""Marthe Robert, from Origins of the NovelPart Two: The Novel as Displacement I: StructuralismWalter Benjamin, ""The Storyteller""Claude Lévi-Strauss, from The Savage Mind, from The Origin of Table Manners, ""How Myths Die,"" from The Naked ManNorthrop Frye, from Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays, from Fables of Identity: Studies in Poetic Mythology, from The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of RomancePart Three: The Novel as Displacement II: PsychoanalysisSigmund Freud, from The Interpretation of Dreams, ""Family Romances""Marthe Robert, from Origins of the NovelPart Four: Grand Theory IGeorg Lukács, from The Theory of the Novel: A Historico-Philosophical Essay on the Forms of Great Epic Literature, from The Historical NovelPart Five: Grand Theory IIJosé Ortega y Gasset, from Meditations on Quixote, ""Notes on the Novel""Part Six: Grand Theory IIIMikhail M. Bakhtin, from The Dialogic Imagination: Four EssaysPart Seven: Revisionist Grand TheoryIan Watt, from The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson, and FieldingMichael McKeon, ""Generic Transformation and Social Change: Rethinking the Rise of the Novel""Fredric Jameson, from The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic ActBenedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of NationalismPart Eight: Privacy, Domesticity, WomenIan Watt, from The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson, and FieldingNancy Armstrong, from Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the NovelGillian Brown, from Domestic Individualism: Imagining Self in Nineteenth-Century AmericaPart Nine: Subjectivity, Character, DevelopmentDorrit Cohn, from Transparent Minds: Narrative Modes for Presenting Consciousness in FictionAnn Banfield, from Unspeakable Sentences: Narration and Representation in the Language of FictionAmélie Oksenberg Rorty, ""Characters, Persons, Selves, Individuals""Franco Moretti, from The Way of the World: The Bildungsroman in European CultureClifford Siskin, from The Historicity of Romantic DiscoursePart Ten: RealismRosalind Coward and John Ellis, from Language and Materialism: Developments in Semiology and the Theory of the SubjectMichael McKeon, from ""Prose Fiction: Great Britain""George Levine, from The Realistic Imagination: English Fiction from Frankenstein to Lady ChatterleyMichael Davitt Bell, from The Development of American RomancePart Eleven: Photography, Film, and the NovelHenry James, from ""Preface to The Golden Bowl""Walter Benjamin, ""The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction""Keith Cohen, Film and Fiction: The Dynamics of ExchangeAndré Bazin, ""In Defense of Mixed Cinema""Part Twelve: ModernismVirginia Woolf, ""Modern Fiction,"" ""Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown""Georg Lukács, from Realism in Our Time: Literature and the Class StruggleJoseph Frank, from Spatial Form in Modern LiteraturePart Thirteen: The New Novel, the Postmodern NovelAlain Robbe-Grillet, from For a New Novel: Essays on FictionLinda Hutcheon, ""Historiographic Metafiction""Part Fourteen: The Colonial and Postcolonial NovelDoris Sommer and George Yudice, ""Latin American Literature from the 'Boom' On""Kwame Anthony Appiah, ""Is the Post- in Postmodernism the Post- in Postcolonial?""Kumkum Sangari, ""The Politics of the Possible""

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