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Informationen zum Autor Michael J. Hoffman and Patrick D. Murphy, eds. Klappentext 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 Zusammenfassung 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. 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 >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>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...
