Essentials of the theory of fiction / edited by Michael J. Hoffman and Patrick D. Murphy.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface to the Third Edition viiIntroduction 11. The Art of Fiction / Henry James 132. Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown / Virginia Woolf 213. Flat and Round Characters / E. M. Forster 354. Epic and Novel / M. M. Bakhtin 435. Spatial Form in Modern Literature / Joseph Frank 616. Writing and the Novel / Roland Barthes 757. Distance and Point of View: An Essay in Classification / Wayne Booth 838. Marxist Aesthetics and Literary Realism / Georg Lukas 1019. The Concept of Character in Fiction / William H. Gass 11310. Time and Narrative in A la recherche du temps perdu / Gerard Genette 21211. Discourse: Nonnarrated Stories / Seymour Chatman 13912. Reading as Construction / Tzvetan Todorov 15213. The Literature of Replenishment / John Barth 16514. The Blackness of Blackness: A Critique on the Sign and the Signifying Monkey / Henry Louis Gates Jr. 17715. Reading for the Plot / Peter Brooks 20116. Breaking the Sentence; Breaking the Sequence / Rachel Blau Duplessis 22117. The Documentary Novel and the Problem of Borders / Barbara Foley 23918. Politics, Literary Form, and a Feminist Poetics of the Novel / Joanne S. Frye 25519. "The Pastime of Past Time": Fiction, History, HistoriographicalMetafiction / Linda Hutcheon 27520. "Building Up from Fragments": The Oral Memory Process in Some Recent African-American Written Narratives / Helen Lock 29721. Scheherazade's Children: Magical Realism and Postmodern Fiction / Wendy B. Faris 31122. The Textualization of the Reader in Magical Realist Fiction / Jon Thiem 33923. Are Fictional Worlds Possible? / Ruth Ronen 35124. Chronoschisms / Ursula K. Heise 36125. Queering Narratology / Susan S. Lanser 38726. A Brief Story of Postmodern Plot / Cathrine Burgass 39927. On Voice / John Brenkman 41128. What Interactive Narratives Do That Print Narratives Cannot / J. Yellowlees Douglas 44329. A Media Migration: Toward a Potential Literature / Joseph Tabbi 471Biographical Notes 491Permissions 495Index 499

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