Theory of the Novel: A Historical Approach

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Michael McKeon
JHU Press, 2000 - 947 oldal

A major collection of essays on the novel.

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, Lévi-Strauss, Lukács, 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 provide the best approach to understanding the novel. All the selections in this anthology date from the twentieth century—most from the last forty years—and represent the attempts of different theorists, and different theoretical schools, to describe the historical stages of the genre's formal development.

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Part
1
Essays toward the Theory of Literary History
34
NonGenre Literature
51
Part
71
WALTER BENJAMIN The Storyteller
77
CLAUDE LÉVISTRAUSS From The Savage
100
Studies
139
Psychoanalysis
145
AMÉLIE OKsenberg Rorty Characters Persons
537
CLIFFORD SISKIN From The Historicity
566
Part Twelve
588
Great Britain
600
English Fiction from Frankenstein to Lady Chatterley
613
of American Romance
632
HENRY JAMES From Preface to The Golden
665
Walter BENJAMIN The Work of Art in the Age
673

of Dreams 149 Family Romances
156
Part Four
179
Part Five
265
JOSÉ ORTEGA Y GASSET From Meditations
271
Notes on the Novel
294
Part
317
Part Seven
355
Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act
400
Reflections on the Origin
414
Privacy Domesticity
435
Studies
441
Narrative
493
ANDRÉ BAZIN In Defense of Mixed Cinema
719
VIRGINIA WOOLF Modern Fiction 739
739
Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown
745
JOSEPH FRANK From Spatial Form
784
LINDA HUTCHEON Historiographic
830
DORIS SOMMER AND GEORGE YUDICE Latin
859
KWAME ANTHONY APPIAH Is the Post
882
the Possible
900
Suggested Further Reading
923
Source Acknowledgments
931
Index to Introduction and Headnotes
937
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Michael McKeon is Board of Governors Professor of Literature at Rutgers University, the author of Politics and Poetry in Restoration England and The Origins of the English Novel, and the editor of Theory of the Novel.

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