Theory of the Novel: A Historical Approach (Paperback)

Part I: Genre Theory
E. D. Hirsch, from Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays
Claudio Guillen, from Validity in Interpretation
Claudio Guillen, 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 II: The Novel as Displacement I: Structuralism
Walter Benjamin, "The Storyteller"
Claude Levi-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 III: The Novel as Displacement II: Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud, from The Interpretation of Dreams, "Family Romances"
Marthe Robert, from Origins of the Novel
Part IV: Grand Theory I
Georg Lukacs, from The Theory of the Novel: A Historico-Philosophical Essay on the Forms of Great Epic Literature, from The Historical Novel
Part V: Grand Theory II
Jose Ortega y Gasset, from Meditations on Quixote, "Notes on the Novel"
Part VI: Grand Theory III
Mikhail M. Bakhtin, from The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays
Part VII: 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 VIII: 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 IX: 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
Amelie 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 X: 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 XI: 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
Andre Bazin, "In Defense of Mixed Cinema"
Part XII: Modernism
Virginia Woolf, "Modern Fiction," "Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown"
Georg Lukacs, from Realism in Our Time: Literature and the Class Struggle
Joseph Frank, from Spatial Form in Modern Literature
Part XIII: The New Novel, the Postmodern Novel
Alain Robbe-Grillet, from For a New Novel: Essays on Fiction
Linda Hutcheon, "Historiographic Metafiction"
Part XIV: 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"