Hoffman / Murphy Essentials of the Theory of Fiction

1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8659-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 520 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hoffman, Michael J.

Murphy, Patrick D.

Weitere Mitwirkende

DuPlessis, Rachel Blau

Lanser, Susan S.

Burgass, Catherine

Tabbi, Joseph

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface to the Third Edition vii

Introduction 1

1. The Art of Fiction / Henry James 13

2. Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown / Virginia Woolf 21

3. Flat and Round Characters / E. M. Forster 35

4. Epic and Novel / M. M. Bakhtin 43

5. Spatial Form in Modern Literature / Joseph Frank 61

6. Writing and the Novel / Roland Barthes 75

7. Distance and Point of View: An Essay in Classification / Wayne Booth 83

8. Marxist Aesthetics and Literary Realism / Georg Lukas 101

9. The Concept of Character in Fiction / William H. Gass 113

10. Time and Narrative in A la recherche du temps perdu / Gerard Genette 212

11. Discourse: Nonnarrated Stories / Seymour Chatman 139

12. Reading as Construction / Tzvetan Todorov 152

13. The Literature of Replenishment / John Barth 165

14. The Blackness of Blackness: A Critique on the Sign and the
Signifying Monkey / Henry Louis Gates Jr. 177

15. Reading for the Plot / Peter Brooks 201

16. Breaking the Sentence; Breaking the Sequence / Rachel Blau Duplessis 221

17. The Documentary Novel and the Problem of Borders / Barbara Foley 239

18. Politics, Literary Form, and a Feminist Poetics of the Novel / Joanne S. Frye 255

19. “The Pastime of Past Time”: Fiction, History, Historiographical
Metafiction / Linda Hutcheon 275

20. “Building Up from Fragments”: The Oral Memory Process in Some Recent African-American Written Narratives / Helen Lock 297

21. Scheherazade’s Children: Magical Realism and Postmodern Fiction / Wendy B. Faris 311

22. The Textualization of the Reader in Magical Realist Fiction / Jon Thiem 339

23. Are Fictional Worlds Possible? / Ruth Ronen 351

24. Chronoschisms / Ursula K. Heise 361

25. Queering Narratology / Susan S. Lanser 387

26. A Brief Story of Postmodern Plot / Cathrine Burgass 399

27. On Voice / John Brenkman 411

28. What Interactive Narratives Do That Print Narratives Cannot / J. Yellowlees Douglas 443

29. A Media Migration: Toward a Potential Literature / Joseph Tabbi 471

Biographical Notes 491

Permissions 495

Index 499

Über Autor(innen)

Michael J. Hoffman is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California, Davis. Among his books are Critical Essays on Gertrude Stein and The Subversive Vision: American Romanticism in Literature.Patrick D. Murphy is Professor of English at the University of Central Florida, Orlando. His most recent books are Farther Afield in the Study of Nature-Oriented Literature and A Place for Wayfaring: The Poetry and Prose of Gary Snyder.