Essentials of the Theory of Fiction
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Essentials of the Theory of Fiction

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Essentials of the Theory of Fiction

About this book

What accounts for the power of stories to both entertain and illuminate? This question has long compelled the attention of storytellers and students of literature alike, and over the past several decades it has opened up broader dialogues about the nature of culture and interpretation. This third edition of the bestselling 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. It offers a sample of major theories of fictional technique while emphasizing recent developments in literary criticism. The essays cover a variety of topics, including voice, point of view, narration, sequencing, gender, and race. Ten new selections address issues such as oral memory in African American fiction, temporality, queer theory, magical realism, interactive narratives, and the effect of virtual technologies on literature. For students and generalists alike, Essentials of the Theory of Fiction is an invaluable resource for understanding how fiction works.

Contributors. M. M. Bakhtin, John Barth, Roland Barthes, Wayne Booth, John Brenkman, Peter Brooks, Catherine Burgass, Seymour Chatman, J. Yellowlees Douglas, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Wendy B. Faris, Barbara Foley, E. M. Forster, Joseph Frank, Joanne S. Frye, William H. Gass, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Gérard Genette, Ursula K. Heise, Michael J. Hoffman, Linda Hutcheon, Henry James, Susan S. Lanser, Helen Lock, Georg Lukács, Patrick D. Murphy, Ruth Ronen, Joseph Tabbi, Jon Thiem, Tzvetan Todorov, Virginia Woolf

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface to the Third Edition
  3. Introduction
  4. The Art of Fiction
  5. Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown
  6. Flat and Round Characters
  7. Epic and Novel
  8. Spatial Form in Modern Literature
  9. Writing and the Novel
  10. Distance and Point of View: An Essay in Classification
  11. Marxist Aesthetics and Literary Realism
  12. The Concept of Character in Fiction
  13. Time and Narrative in "A la recherche du temps perdu"
  14. Discourse: Nonnarrated Stories
  15. Reading as Construction
  16. The Literature of Replenishment
  17. The Blackness of Blackness:A Critique on the Sign and the Signifying Monkey
  18. Reading for the Plot
  19. Breaking the Sentence;Breaking the Sequence
  20. The Documentary Novel and the Problem of Borders
  21. Politics, Literary Form, and a Feminist Poetics of the Novel
  22. ‘‘The Pastime of Past Time’’: Fiction, History, Historiographical Metafiction
  23. ‘‘Building Up from Fragments’’: The Oral Memory Process in Some Recent African-American Written Narratives
  24. Scheherazade’s Children: Magical Realism and Postmodern Fiction
  25. The Textualization of the Reader in Magical Realist Fiction
  26. Are Fictional Worlds Possible?
  27. Chronoschisms
  28. Queering Narratology
  29. A Brief Story of Postmodern Plot
  30. On Voice
  31. What Interactive Narratives Do That Print Narratives Cannot
  32. A Media Migration: Toward a PotentialLiterature
  33. Biographical Notes
  34. Permissions
  35. Index