| Edition |
Third edition. |
| Description |
viii, 511 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Subject |
Fiction -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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| Added Author |
Hoffman, Michael J., 1939-
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Murphy, Patrick D., 1951-
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Essentials of the theory of fiction. 3rd ed. Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2005 (OCoLC)607683828 |
| ISBN |
0822335093 alkaline paper |
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9780822335092 alkaline paper |
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0822335212 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780822335214 paperback alkaline paper |
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