{"product_id":"essentials-of-the-theory-of-fiction-9780822335214","title":"Essentials of the Theory of Fiction","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface to the Third Edition vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Art of Fiction \/ Henry James 13\u003cbr\u003e 2. Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown \/ Virginia Woolf 21\u003cbr\u003e 3. Flat and Round Characters \/ E. M. Forster 35\u003cbr\u003e 4. Epic and Novel \/ M. M. Bakhtin 43\u003cbr\u003e 5. Spatial Form in Modern Literature \/ Joseph Frank 61\u003cbr\u003e 6. Writing and the Novel \/ Roland Barthes 75\u003cbr\u003e 7. Distance and Point of View: An Essay in Classification \/ Wayne Booth 83\u003cbr\u003e 8. Marxist Aesthetics and Literary Realism \/ Georg Lukas 101\u003cbr\u003e 9. The Concept of Character in Fiction \/ William H. Gass 113\u003cbr\u003e 10. Time and Narrative in\u003ci\u003e A la recherche du temps perdu\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Gerard Genette 212\u003cbr\u003e 11. \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eDiscourse: Nonnarrated Stories \/ Seymour Chatman 139\u003cbr\u003e 12. Reading as Construction \/ Tzvetan Todorov 152\u003cbr\u003e 13. The Literature of Replenishment \/ John Barth 165\u003cbr\u003e 14. The Blackness of Blackness: A Critique on the Sign and the \u003cbr\u003eSignifying Monkey \/ Henry Louis Gates Jr. 177\u003cbr\u003e 15. Reading for the Plot \/ \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003ePeter Brooks 201\u003cbr\u003e 16. Breaking the Sentence; Breaking the Sequence \/ Rachel Blau Duplessis 221\u003cbr\u003e 17. The Documentary Novel and the Problem of Borders \/ Barbara Foley 239\u003cbr\u003e 18. Politics, Literary Form, and a Feminist Poetics of the Novel \/ Joanne S. Frye 255\u003cbr\u003e 19. “The Pastime of Past Time”: Fiction, History, Historiographical\u003cbr\u003eMetafiction \/ Linda Hutcheon 275\u003cbr\u003e 20. “Building Up from Fragments”: The Oral Memory Process in Some Recent African-American Written Narratives \/\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eHelen Lock 297\u003cbr\u003e 21. Scheherazade’s Children: Magical Realism and Postmodern Fiction \/ Wendy B. Faris 311\u003cbr\u003e 22. The Textualization of the Reader in Magical Realist Fiction \/ Jon Thiem 339\u003cbr\u003e 23. Are Fictional Worlds Possible? \/ Ruth Ronen 351\u003cbr\u003e 24. Chronoschisms \/ Ursula K. Heise 361\u003cbr\u003e 25. Queering Narratology \/ Susan S. Lanser 387\u003cbr\u003e 26. A Brief Story of Postmodern Plot \/ Cathrine Burgass 399\u003cbr\u003e 27. On Voice \/ John Brenkman 411\u003cbr\u003e 28. What Interactive Narratives Do That Print Narratives Cannot \/ J. Yellowlees Douglas 443\u003cbr\u003e 29. A Media Migration: Toward a Potential Literature \/ Joseph Tabbi 471\u003cbr\u003e Biographical Notes 491\u003cbr\u003e Permissions 495\u003cbr\u003e Index 499","brand":"MD - Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49969069556055,"sku":"9780822335214","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822335214.jpg?v=1739176774","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/essentials-of-the-theory-of-fiction-9780822335214","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}