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

The novel  an anthology of criticism and theory, 1900–2000.pdf......Page 0
The Novel
......Page 2
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 10
General Introduction......Page 16
Part I: Form and Function......Page 32
1 Vı´ktor Shklovsky, ‘‘Sterne’s Tristram Shandy’’......Page 46
2 Vladı´mir Propp, from Morphology of the Folktale......Page 69
3 Henry James, Prefaces to the New York Edition......Page 80
Preface to The Portrait of a Lady......Page 81
Preface to The Ambassadors......Page 90
4 Percy Lubbock, from The Craft of Fiction......Page 101
5 Northrop Frye, from Anatomy of Criticism ‘‘Rhetorical Criticism: Theory of Genres’’......Page 112
Part II: The Chicago School......Page 122
6 R. S. Crane, from ‘‘The Concept of Plot and the Plot of Tom Jones’’......Page 134
7 Ralph W. Rader, ‘‘Richardson to Austen’’......Page 155
8 Wayne C. Booth, from The Rhetoric of Fiction......Page 169
Part III: Structuralism, Narratology, Deconstruction......Page 200
9 Tzvetan Todorov, from The Poetics of Prose ‘‘Language and Literature’’ ‘‘The Grammar of Narrative’’......Page 220
10 Seymour Chatman, from Story and Discourse ‘‘Discourse: Covert versus Overt Narrators’’......Page 234
11 Roland Barthes, ‘‘The Reality Effect’’......Page 244
12 Roland Barthes, ‘‘From Work to Text’’......Page 250
13 J. Hillis Miller, from Reading Narrative ‘‘Indirect Discourses and Irony’’......Page 257
14 Barbara Johnson, from A World of Difference ‘‘Metaphor, Metonymy, and Voice in Their Eyes Were Watching God ’’......Page 272
Part IV: Psychoanalytic Approaches......Page 286
15 Rene´ Girard, from Deceit, Desire, and the Novel ‘‘ ‘Triangular’ Desire’’......Page 309
16 Shoshana Felman, from ‘‘Turning the Screw of Interpretation’’ ‘‘The Turns of the Story’s Frame: A Theory of Narrative’’......Page 330
17 Peter Brooks, ‘‘Freud’s Masterplot’’......Page 344
Part V: Marxist Approaches......Page 358
18 Walter Benjamin, ‘‘The Storyteller’’......Page 376
19 Gyo¨rgy Luka´cs, from Studies in European Realism......Page 394
20 Gyo¨rgy Luka´cs, ‘‘The Ideology of Modernism’’......Page 409
21 Fredric Jameson, from The Political Unconscious......Page 428
Part VI: The Novel as Social Discourse......Page 450
22 Ian Watt, from The Rise of the Novel ‘‘Realism and the Novel Form’’......Page 477
23 M. M. Bakhtin, from ‘‘Discourse in the Novel’’......Page 496
24 Henry Louis Gates, Jr., from The Signifying Monkey ‘‘Zora Neale Hurston and the Speakerly Text’’......Page 526
25 Jane Tompkins, from Sensational Designs ‘‘Introduction: The Cultural Work of American Fiction’’......Page 550
26 D. A. Miller, from The Novel and the Police......Page 556
Part VII: Gender, Sexuality, and the Novel......Page 574
27 Virginia Woolf, ‘‘Women and Fiction’’......Page 594
28 Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, from Between Men......Page 601
29 Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, ‘‘Queer Performativity: Henry James’s The Art of the Novel ’’......Page 620
30 Nancy Armstrong, from Desire and Domestic Fiction ‘‘Introduction: The Politics of Domesticating Culture, Then and Now’’......Page 636
31 Catherine Gallagher, from Nobody’s Story......Page 659
Part VIII: Post-Colonialism and the Novel......Page 668
32 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, ‘‘Three Women’s Texts and a Critique of Imperialism’’......Page 689
33 Edward W. Said, from Culture and Imperialism ‘‘Consolidated Vision’’......Page 706
34 Homi K. Bhabha, from The Location of Culture ‘‘DissemiNation: Time, Narrative, and the Margins of the Modern Nation’’......Page 731
35 Franco Moretti, from Atlas of the European Novel, 1800–1900 ‘‘The Novel, the Nation-State’’......Page 749
Part IX: Novel Readers......Page 762
36 Wolfgang Iser, from The Implied Reader ‘‘The Reader as a Component Part of the Realistic Novel’’......Page 778
37 Nina Baym, from Novels, Readers, and Reviewers ‘‘The Triumph of the Novel’’......Page 794
38 Garrett Stewart, from Dear Reader ‘‘In the Absence of Audience: Of Reading and Dread in Mary Shelley’’......Page 807
Index......Page 818