| Description |
xii, 330 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Preface to "Joseph Andrews" / Henry Fielding -- "Hawthorne and his Mosses" / Herman Melville -- "Silly novels by lady novelists" / George Eliot -- "Art of fiction" / Henry James -- "Modern fiction" / Virginia Woolf -- "Blueprint for negro writing" / Richard Wright -- "Hidden name and complex fate" / Ralph Ellison -- "Literature of Exhaustion" / John Barth -- "Depreciated legacy of Cervantes" / Milan Kundera -- "Concept of plot and the plot of 'Tom Jones'" / R. S. Crane -- "Functions of character" / James Phelan -- |
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"Pattern and Rhythm" / E. M. Forster -- "Order, duration, frequency" / Gerard Genette -- "Distance and point of view" / Wayne C. Booth -- "Focalization" / Mieke Bal -- "Voice" / Seymour Chatman -- "Narrated monologue" / Dorrit Cohn -- "Heteroglossia in the novel" / Mikhail Bakhtin -- "Toward a feminist poetics of narrative voice" / Susan Sniader Lanser -- "Written composition and the emergence of narrative style" / Ann Banfield -- "Writing and the novel" / Roland Barthes -- |
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"Truth in fiction : a reexamination of audiences" / Peter Rabinowitz -- "Introduction to the study of the narratee" / Gerald Prince -- "In the American canon" / Robert Hemenway -- "Who cuts the border? some readings on 'America'" / Hortense Spillers -- "What is a minor literature" / Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari -- "Breaking the sentence; breaking the sequence" / Rachel Blau DuPlessis -- "Introduction" to "the signifying monkey" / Henry Louis Gates -- "Introduction : axiomatic" to "epistemology of the closet" / Eve Kosofsky Sedgewick -- "Narrative desire" / Peter Brooks -- "Realist floor plan" / Fredric Jameson. |
| Subject |
Fiction -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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| Added Author |
Richter, David H., 1945-
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| ISBN |
0801316103 |
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