Essentials of the Theory of FictionMichael J. Hoffman, Patrick D. Murphy 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. Expanded and revised, it has new selections from contemporary theorists, including Henry Louis Gates Jr., Peter Brooks, Linda Hutcheon, David Lodge, Barbara Foley, and others. Selections from: M. M. Bakhtin, John Barth, Roland Barthes, Wayne Booth, Peter Brooks, Seymour Chatman, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Suzanne C. Ferguson, Barbara Foley, E. M. Forster, Joseph Frank, William Freedman, Norman Friedman, Joanne S. Frye, William H. Gass, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Gérard Genette, J. Arthur Honeywell, Linda Hutcheon, Henry James, Susan S. Lanser, Mitchell A. Leaska, George Levine, David Lodge, Georg Lukács, Gerald Prince, Patrocinio P. Schweickart, Tzvetan Todorov, Lionel Trilling, and Virginia Woolf |
Contents
I | 1 |
II | 14 |
III | 22 |
IV | 36 |
V | 43 |
VI | 63 |
VII | 77 |
VIII | 92 |
XVII | 213 |
XVIII | 234 |
XIX | 246 |
XX | 258 |
XXI | 273 |
XXII | 287 |
XXIII | 301 |
XXV | 326 |
IX | 100 |
X | 116 |
XI | 134 |
XII | 147 |
XIII | 158 |
XIV | 172 |
XV | 181 |
XVI | 200 |
XXVI | 348 |
XXVII | 372 |
XXVIII | 392 |
XXIX | 409 |
XXXI | 432 |
XXXII | 453 |
XXXIII | 473 |
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