Theory of the Novel: A Historical ApproachMichael McKeon A major collection of essays on the novel. Michael McKeon, author of The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740, here assembles a collection of influential essays on the theory of the novel. Carefully chosen selections from Frye, Benjamin, Lévi-Strauss, Lukács, Bakhtin, and other prominent theorists explore the historical significance of the novel as a genre, from its early beginnings to its modern variations in the postmodern novel and postcolonial novel. Offering a generous selection of key theoretical texts for students and scholars alike, Theory of the Novel also presents a provocative argument for studying the genre. In his introduction to the volume and in headnotes to each section, McKeon argues that genre theory and history provide the best approach to understanding the novel. All the selections in this anthology date from the twentieth century—most from the last forty years—and represent the attempts of different theorists, and different theoretical schools, to describe the historical stages of the genre's formal development. |
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... Fiction 493 22. ANN BANFIELD / From Unspeakable Sentences : Narration and Representation in the Language of Fiction 515 23. AMÉLIE OKsenberg Rorty / Characters , Persons , Selves , Individuals 537 24. FRANCO MORETTI / From The Way of ...
... Fiction : Great Britain 600 28. GEORGE LEVINE / From The Realistic Imagination : English Fiction from Frankenstein to Lady Chatterley 613 29. MICHAEL DAVITT BELL / From The Development of American Romance 632 30. HENRY JAMES / From ...
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Contents
Part | 1 |
Essays toward the Theory of Literary History | 34 |
NonGenre Literature | 51 |
Part | 71 |
WALTER BENJAMIN The Storyteller | 77 |
CLAUDE LÉVISTRAUSS From The Savage | 100 |
Studies | 139 |
Psychoanalysis | 145 |
AMÉLIE OKsenberg Rorty Characters Persons | 537 |
CLIFFORD SISKIN From The Historicity | 566 |
Part Twelve | 588 |
Great Britain | 600 |
English Fiction from Frankenstein to Lady Chatterley | 613 |
of American Romance | 632 |
HENRY JAMES From Preface to The Golden | 665 |
Walter BENJAMIN The Work of Art in the Age | 673 |
of Dreams 149 Family Romances | 156 |
Part Four | 179 |
Part Five | 265 |
JOSÉ ORTEGA Y GASSET From Meditations | 271 |
Notes on the Novel | 294 |
Part | 317 |
Part Seven | 355 |
Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act | 400 |
Reflections on the Origin | 414 |
Privacy Domesticity | 435 |
Studies | 441 |
Narrative | 493 |
ANDRÉ BAZIN In Defense of Mixed Cinema | 719 |
VIRGINIA WOOLF Modern Fiction 739 | 739 |
Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown | 745 |
JOSEPH FRANK From Spatial Form | 784 |
LINDA HUTCHEON Historiographic | 830 |
DORIS SOMMER AND GEORGE YUDICE Latin | 859 |
KWAME ANTHONY APPIAH Is the Post | 882 |
the Possible | 900 |
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