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- “Like New. Crisp pages. Tight binding. No writing, underlining, marks, loose pages or tears.”
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- English literature
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- Language Study
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-10
080186397X
ISBN-13
9780801863974
eBay Product ID (ePID)
17038716407
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
864 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Theory of the Novel : a Historical Approach
Publication Year
2000
Subject
General, Semiotics & Theory, Books & Reading
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.6 in
Item Weight
46.2 Oz
Item Length
10 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
00-027120
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
McKeon's dissections are often breathtaking... [his] anthology is solid, commandingly centered,... superbly energetic and uniquely powerful., The anthology provides not only a splendid guide to thinking about the novel, but also a useful warning against assuming that fiction is merely the instrument of those who wish to dampen revolution, forge national identities, and build empires., "McKeon's dissections are often breathtaking... [his] anthology is solid, commandingly centered,... superbly energetic and uniquely powerful."--Marshall Brown, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, "The anthology provides not only a splendid guide to thinking about the novel, but also a useful warning against assuming that fiction is merely the instrument of those who wish to dampen revolution, forge national identities, and build empires."--Jonathan Lamb, Studies in English Literature, This is a richly stimulating volume, an invaluable resource and challenging intervention for all serious researchers into the novel., As comprehensive an account of the genre as you could wish. What a marvelous collection and what a skillful editor McKeon is, marshalling the essays into an argument for the novel as a distinct 'literary historical genre' rather than as one element in a bland, all-embracing narrative theory... The outstanding feature of this fine collection is its firm commitment to the art of the novelist. Throughout, there is a profound recognition of the novel's ability to criticise the existing order, to create new and compelling worlds, to extend our grammar and enlarge our vocabulary for coping with the great dramas of life, love, death and the shoelace snapping when you are late for work., "This is a richly stimulating volume, an invaluable resource and challenging intervention for all serious researchers into the novel."-- This Year's Work in English Studies, "This breathtaking comprehensive collection of essays... is an amazingly ambitious project... McKeon has provided us with an invaluable map of the theoretical and literary-historical landscape surrounding the origins, theories, and developments of the novel."--Ansgar Nünning Gießen, LWU, "As comprehensive an account of the genre as you could wish. What a marvelous collection and what a skillful editor McKeon is, marshalling the essays into an argument for the novel as a distinct 'literary historical genre' rather than as one element in a bland, all-embracing narrative theory... The outstanding feature of this fine collection is its firm commitment to the art of the novelist. Throughout, there is a profound recognition of the novel's ability to criticise the existing order, to create new and compelling worlds, to extend our grammar and enlarge our vocabulary for coping with the great dramas of life, love, death and the shoelace snapping when you are late for work."--Gary Day, Times Higher Education Supplement, "As a teaching text this anthology can hardly be bettered." -- David Walker, British Journal for 18th-Century Studies, This breathtaking comprehensive collection of essays... is an amazingly ambitious project... McKeon has provided us with an invaluable map of the theoretical and literary-historical landscape surrounding the origins, theories, and developments of the novel.
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
809.3
Table Of Content
Contents and Contributors: Part One: Genre Theory Northrop Frye, from Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays E. D. Hirsch, from Validity in Interpretation Claudio Guilln, from Literature as System: Essays toward the Theory of Literary History Jonathan Culler, ""Toward a Theory of Non-Genre Literature""Marthe Robert, from Origins of the Novel Part Two: The Novel as Displacement I: Structuralism Walter Benjamin, ""The Storyteller""Claude Lvi-Strauss, from The Savage Mind, from The Origin of Table Manners, ""How Myths Die,"" from The Naked Man Northrop Frye, from Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays, from Fables of Identity: Studies in Poetic Mythology, from The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance Part Three: The Novel as Displacement II: Psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud, from The Interpretation of Dreams , ""Family Romances""Marthe Robert, from Origins of the Novel Part Four: Grand Theory I Georg Lukcs, from The Theory of the Novel: A Historico-Philosophical Essay on the Forms of Great Epic Literature, from The Historical Novel Part Five: Grand Theory II JosOrtega y Gasset, from Meditations on Quixote, ""Notes on the Novel"" Part Six: Grand Theory III Mikhail M. Bakhtin, from The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays Part Seven: Revisionist Grand Theory Ian Watt, from The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding Michael McKeon, ""Generic Transformation and Social Change: Rethinking the Rise of the Novel""Fredric Jameson, from The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism Part Eight: Privacy, Domesticity, Women Ian Watt, from The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding Nancy Armstrong, from Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel Gillian Brown, from Domestic Individualism: Imagining Self in Nineteenth-Century America Part Nine: Subjectivity, Character, Development Dorrit Cohn, from Transparent Minds: Narrative Modes for Presenting Consciousness in Fiction Ann Banfield, from Unspeakable Sentences: Narration and Representation in the Language of Fiction Amlie Oksenberg Rorty, ""Characters, Persons, Selves, Individuals""Franco Moretti, from The Way of the World: The Bildungsroman in European Culture Clifford Siskin, from The Historicity of Romantic Discourse Part Ten: Realism Rosalind Coward and John Ellis, from Language and Materialism: Developments in Semiology and the Theory of the Subject Michael McKeon, from ""Prose Fiction: Great Britain""George Levine, from The Realistic Imagination: English Fiction from Frankenstein to Lady Chatterley Michael Davitt Bell, from The Development of American Romance Part Eleven: Photography, Film, and the Novel Henry James, from ""Preface to The Golden Bowl"" Walter Benjamin, ""The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction""Keith Cohen, Film and Fiction: The Dynamics of Exchange AndrBazin, ""In Defense of Mixed Cinema"" Part Twelve: Modernism Virginia Woolf, ""Modern Fiction,"" ""Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown""Georg Lukcs, from Realism in Our Time: Literature and the Class Struggle Joseph Frank, from Spatial Form in Modern Literature Part Thirteen: The New Novel, the Postmodern Novel Alain Robbe-Grillet, from For a New Novel: Essays on Fiction Linda Hutcheon, ""Historiographic Metafiction"" Part Fourteen: The Colonial and Postcolonial Novel Doris Sommer and George Yudice, ""Latin American Literature from the ''Boom'' On""Kwame Anthony Appiah, ""Is the Post- in Postmodernism the Post- in Postcolonial?""Kumkum Sangari, ""The Politics of the Possible""
Synopsis
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, Lvi-Strauss, Lukcs, Bakhtin, and other prominent theorists explore the historical significance of the novel as a genre, from its early beginnings to ......, 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, Lvi-Strauss, Lukcs, 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., 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, L vi-Strauss, Luk cs, 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., 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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PN3451.T49 2000
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