Essentials of the Theory of Fiction

Name: Essentials of the Theory of Fiction
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ISBN: 9780822318231

ISBN-10: 0822318237

ISBN-13: 9780822318231

Edition: 2nd 1996

Authors: Patrick D. Murphy, Michael J. Hoffman

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What accounts for the power of stories to both entertain us and interpret our world? This question has compelled the attention of storytellers and students of literature alike--particularly in recent decades--and their answers have opened an important window on larger questions about the nature of culture, as well as of interpretation and understanding. This second edition of 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.

Book details

List price: $32.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 11/21/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 9.25" wide x 6.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English



Preface to the Third Edition


Introduction


The Art of Fiction


Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown


Flat and Round Characters


Epic and Novel


Spatial Form in Modern Literature


Writing and the Novel


Distance and Point of View: An Essay in Classification


Marxist Aesthetics and Literary Realism


The Concept of Character in Fiction


Time and Narrative in A la recherche du temps perdu


Discourse: Nonnarrated Stories


Reading as Construction


The Literature of Replenishment


The Blackness of Blackness: A Critique on the Sign and the Signifying Monkey


Reading for the Plot


Breaking the Sentence Breaking the Sequence


The Documentary Novel and the Problem of Borders


Politics, Literary Form, and a Feminist Poetics of the Novel


"The Pastime of Past Time": Fiction, History, Historiographical Metafiction


"Building Up from Fragments": The Oral Memory Process in Some Recent African-American Written Narratives


Scheherazade's Children: Magical Realism and Postmodern Fiction


The Textualization of the Reader in Magical Realist Fiction


Are Fictional Worlds Possible?


Chronoschisms


Queering Narratology


A Brief Story of Postmodern Plot


On Voice


What Interactive Narratives Do That Print Narratives Cannot


A Media Migration: Toward a Potential Literature


Biographical Notes


Permissions


Index