Theory of the Novel: An Historical Approach

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Contents and Contributors: Part One: Genre TheoryNorthrop Frye, from Anatomy of Criticism: Four EssaysE. D. Hirsch, from Validity in InterpretationClaudio Guillen, from Literature as System: Essays toward the Theory of Literary HistoryJonathan Culler, Toward a Theory of Non-Genre LiteratureMarthe Robert, from Origins of the Two: Novel as Displacement I: StructuralismWalter Benjamin, The StorytellerClaude Levi-Strauss, from Savage Mind, from Origin of Table Manners, How Myths Die, from Naked ManNorthrop Frye, from Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays, from Fables of Identity: Studies in Poetic Mythology, from Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of RomancePart Three: Novel as Displacement II: PsychoanalysisSigmund Freud, from Interpretation of Dreams, Family RomancesMarthe Robert, from Origins of the Four: Grand Theory IGeorg Lukacs, from Theory of the Novel: A Historico-Philosophical Essay on the Forms of Great Epic Literature, from Historical Five: Grand Theory IIJose Ortega y Gasset, from Meditations on Quixote, Notes on the NovelPart Six: Grand Theory IIIMikhail M. Bakhtin, from Dialogic Imagination: Four EssaysPart Seven: Revisionist Grand TheoryIan Watt, from Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson, and FieldingMichael McKeon, Generic Transformation and Social Change: Rethinking the Rise of the NovelFredric Jameson, from 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 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 FictionAmelie Oksenberg Rorty, Characters, Persons, Selves, IndividualsFranco Moretti, from Way of the World: Bildungsroman in European CultureClifford Siskin, from 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 BritainGeorge Levine, from Realistic Imagination: English Fiction from Frankenstein to Lady ChatterleyMichael Davitt Bell, from Development of American RomancePart Eleven: Photography, Film, and the NovelHenry James, from Preface to Golden BowlWalter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical ReproductionKeith Cohen, Film and Fiction: Dynamics of ExchangeAndre Bazin, In Defense of Mixed CinemaPart Twelve: ModernismVirginia Woolf, Fiction, Mr. Bennett and Mrs. BrownGeorg Lukacs, from Realism in Our Time: Literature and the Class StruggleJoseph Frank, from Spatial Form in Modern LiteraturePart Thirteen: New Novel, the Postmodern NovelAlain Robbe-Grillet, from For a New Novel: Essays on FictionLinda Hutcheon, Historiographic MetafictionPart Fourteen: Colonial and Postcolonial NovelDoris Sommer and George Yudice, Latin American Literature from the 'Boom' OnKwame Anthony Appiah, Is the Post- in Postmodernism the Post- in Postcolonial?Kumkum Sangari, The Politics of the Possible

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