The Novel: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory 1900-2000

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Dorothy J. Hale
John Wiley & Sons, Nov 4, 2005 - Literary Criticism - 840 pages
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The Novel: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory 1900–2000 is a collection of the most influential writings on the theory of the novel from the twentieth century.

  • Traces the rise of novel theory and the extension of its influence into other disciplines, especially social, cultural and political theory.
  • Broad in scope, including sections on formalism; the Chicago School; structuralism and narratology; deconstruction; psychoanalysis; Marxism; social discourse; gender; post-colonialism; and more.
  • Includes whole essays or chapters wherever possible.
  • Headnotes introduce and link each piece, enabling readers to draw connections between different schools of thought.
  • Encourages students to approach theoretical texts with confidence, applying the same skills they bring to literary texts.
  • Includes a volume introduction, a selected bibliography, an index of topics and short author biographies to support study.
 

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Contents

III
17
IV
31
V
54
VI
65
VII
86
VIII
97
IX
107
X
119
XXVIII
413
XXIX
435
XXX
462
XXXII
481
XXXIII
511
XXXIV
535
XXXV
541
XXXVI
559

XI
140
XII
154
XIII
185
XIV
205
XV
219
XVI
229
XVII
235
XVIII
242
XIX
257
XX
271
XXI
294
XXII
315
XXIII
329
XXIV
343
XXV
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XXVI
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XXVII
394
XXXVII
579
XXXVIII
586
XXXIX
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XL
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XLI
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XLII
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XLIII
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XLIV
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XLV
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XLVI
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XLVII
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XLVIII
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XLIX
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L
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LI
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LII
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About the author (2005)

Dorothy J. Hale is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Social Formalism: The Novel in Theory from Henry James to the Present (1998), which won the George and Barbara Perkins Prize given yearly by the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature for the best book published on narrative.

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TitleThe Novel: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory 1900-2000
EditorDorothy J. Hale
Editionillustrated
PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons, 2005
ISBN140510774X, 9781405107747
Length840 pages
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Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory
  
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