Theory of the Novel A Historical Approach

Name: Theory of the Novel A Historical Approach
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ISBN: 9780801863974

ISBN-10: 080186397X

ISBN-13: 9780801863974

Edition: 2000

Authors: Michael McKeon

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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, Lvi-Strauss, Lukcs, 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…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 11/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 864
Size: 6.25" wide x 10.00" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 3.630
Language: English



Contents and Contributors:



Genre Theory


Northrop Frye, from Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays


E. D. Hirsch, from Validity in Interpretation


Claudio GuillTn, from Literature as System: Essays toward the Theory of Literary History


Jonathan Culler, ""Toward a Theory of Non-Genre Literature""


Marthe Robert, from Origins of the Novel



The Novel as Displacement I: Structuralism


Walter Benjamin, ""The Storyteller""


Claude LTvi-Strauss, from The Savage Mind, from The Origin of Table Manners, ""How Myths Di