HISTORY

 

ANCIENT THOUGHT (c.700 BCE-300 CE):

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Classical Literature

 

MEDIEVAL THOUGHT (c.300-c.1400):

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Medieval Literature

 

RENAISSANCE THOUGHT (c.1400-c.1600):

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Renaissance Literature

 

EARLY MODERN THOUGHT (c.1600-c.1785):

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Neoclassical Literature

 

NINETEENTH CENTURY THOUGHT:

bullet Romanticism (c.1785-1830):
bullet Romantic Literature
bullet Mid-Century & Fin de Siècle (1830-1900) Thought:
bullet 'Victorian' Literature

 

TWENTIETH CENTURY THOUGHT:

bullet Analytic Philosophy
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bullet Idealism
bullet Marxism
bullet Phenomenology, Existentialism, Hermeneutics
bullet Psychoanalysis
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bullet Feminist Theory
bullet Modernism, Myth & New Criticism
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bullet Pragmatism
 
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Literature

 

ASIAN THOUGHT:

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AUSTRALASIAN THOUGHT:

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CANADIAN THOUGHT:

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CARIBBEAN THOUGHT:

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EUROPEAN THOUGHT:

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bullet Italy:
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bullet Literature

 

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MIDDLE EASTERN THOUGHT:

bullet Arabic/Islamic Thought:
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bullet Israeli/Jewish Thought:
bullet Literature

 

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bullet Literature
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PROSE NARRATIVE: NARRATOLOGY


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Related Pages:

Feminist:

  • Feminist Perspectives on Prose Narrative

Post-colonial:

  • Post-colonial Perspectives on Prose Narrative

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COURSES

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PHILOSOPHERS / THEORISTS

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

  • Anthologies:
    • Aldridge, John W., ed.  Critiques and Essays on Modern Fiction, 1920-1951.  New York: , 1952.
    • Bal, Mieke, ed.  Narrative Theory: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies.  4 Vols.  London: Routledge, 2004.
    • Currie, Mark, ed.  Metafiction.  London: Longman, 1995.
    • Davis, Robert Murray, ed.  The Novel: Modern Essays in Criticism.  Englewood Hills, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1969.
    • Grunzweig, Walter, and Andreas Solbach, eds.  Transcending Boundaries: Narratology in Context.  Tubingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1999.
    • Hale, Dorothy J., ed.  The Novel: an Anthology of Criticism and Theory, 1900-2000.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2005.
    • Halperin, John, ed.  The Theory of the Novel: New Essays.  Oxford: OUP, 1974.
    • Herman, David, ed.  Narrative Theory and the Cognitive Sciences.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2003.
    • Herman, David, ed.  Narratologies: New Perspectives on Narrative Analysis.  Columbus: Ohio State UP, 1999.
    • Hoffman, Michael J., and Patrick D. Murphy, eds.  Essentials of the Theory of Fiction.  Durham: Duke UP, 1988. 
    • McKeon, Michael, ed.  Theory of the Novel: a Historical Approach.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2000. 
    • McQuillan, Martin, ed.  The Narrative Reader.  London: Routledge, 2000.
    • Mitchell, W. J. T., ed.  On Narrative.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1981.
    • O'Connor, William Van, ed.  Forms of Modern Fiction.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1948.
    • Onega, Susana, and José Ángel García Landes, eds.  Narratology:  an Introduction.  London: Longman, 1996.
    • Scholes, Robert, ed.  Approaches to the Novel: Materials for a PoeticsSan Francisco: Chandler, 1966.  
    • Smitten, Jeffrey R., and Ann Daghistany, eds.  Spatial Form in NarrativeForeword by Joseph Frank.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1981.

    • Stevick, Philip, ed.  The Theory of the Novel.  New York: Free Press, 1967. 
    • Valdes, Mario J., and Owen J.  Miller, eds.  Interpretation of Narrative.  Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1978.
    • Van Peer, Willie, and Semour Chatman, eds.  New Perspectives on Narrative Perspective.  Albany: SUNY Press, 2001.
    • Williams, Ione, ed.  Novel and Romance, 1700-1800: a Documentary Record.  New York: Barnes and Noble, 1970.
  • Selected Individual Works:
    • Armstrong, Nancy.  How Novels Think: the Limits of Individualism from 1719-1900.  New York: Columbia UP, 2005.

    • Armstrong, Nancy.  Desire and Domestic Fiction: a Political History of the Novel.  Oxford: OUP, 1987. 
      • Theory of the Novel: a Historical Approach.  Ed. Michael McKeon.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2000.  467-475.
    • Banfield, Ann.  Unspeakable Sentences: Narration and Representation in the Language of Fiction.  London: Routledge, 1983.
    • Beach, Joseph Warren.  The Twentieth-Century Novel: Studies in TechniqueNew York: Appleton, 1932.
    • Bender, John.  Imagining the Penitentiary: Fiction and the Architecture of Mind in Eighteenth Century EnglandChicago: U of Chicago P, 1987.
    • Chambers, Ross.  Room for Maneuver: Reading (the) Oppositional (in) Narrative.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1991.
    • Chambers, Ross.  Story and Situation: Narrative Seduction and the Power of Fiction.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1984.
    • Cohn, Dorrit.  The Distinction of Fiction.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2000.
    • Cohn, Dorrit.  Transparent Minds: Narrative Modes for Presenting Consciousness.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1983. 
      • Theory of the Novel: a Historical Approach.  Ed. Michael McKeon.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2000.  493-514.
    • Coste, Didier.  Narrative as Communication.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1989.
    • Crary, Jonathan.  Techniques of the Observer: on Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990.
    • Currie, Gregory.  The Nature of Fiction.  Cambridge: CUP, 1990.
    • Daiches, David.  The Novel and the Modern World.  Chicago: , 1939.
    • Danto, Arthur C.  Narration and Knowledge.  New York: Columbia UP, 1985.
    • Davis, Lennard J.  Factual Fictions: the Origins of the English Novel.  New York: Columbia UP, 1983.
    • Edel, Leon.  The Psychological Novel, 1900-1950.  London: , 1955.
    • Feher, Ferenc.  "Is the Novel Problematic?  a Contribution to the Theory of the Novel."  Telos 15 (1973): 47-74.
    • Firmat, Gustavo Perez.  "The Novel as Genres."  Genre 12 (1979): 269-292.
    • Freedman, Ralph.  "The Possibility of a Theory of the Novel."  The Disciplines of Criticism.  Ed. Peter Demetz, Thomas Greene, and Lowry Nelson.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1968.  57-77.
    • Freedman, William.  "The Literary Motif: a Definition and Evaluation."  Novel 5 (1971): . 
      • Essentials of the Theory of Fiction.  Ed. Michael J. Hoffman and Patrick D. Murphy.  Durham: Duke UP, 1988.  200-212.
    • Gallagher, Catherine.  The Body Economic: Life, Death, and Sensation in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 2005.
    • Gass, William H.  "The Concept of Character in Fiction."  Fiction and the Figures of Life.  1970. 
      • Essentials of the Theory of Fiction.  Ed. Michael J. Hoffman and Patrick D. Murphy.  Durham: Duke UP, 1988.  172-180.
    • Heiserman, Arthur,  The Novel Before the Novel: Essays and Discussions about the Beginnings of Prose Fiction in the West.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1977.
    • Herman, David.  Story Logic: Problems and Possibilities of Narrative.  Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2002.
    • Honeywell, J. Arthur.  "Plot in the Modern Novel."  Critical Approaches to Fiction.  Ed. Shiv Kumar and Keith McClean.  1968. 
      • Essentials of the Theory of Fiction.  Ed. Michael J. Hoffman and Patrick D. Murphy.  Durham: Duke UP, 1988.  147-157.
    • Kahler, Erich.  The Inward Turn of Narrative.  Trans.  Richard and Clara Winston.  Evanston: Northwestern UP, 1973.
    • Kearns, Michael.  Rhetorical Narratology.  Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1999.
    • Leaska, Mitchell A.  "The Concept of Point of View."  Virginia Woolf's Lighthouse.  1970. 
      • Essentials of the Theory of Fiction.  Ed. Michael J. Hoffman and Patrick D. Murphy.  Durham: Duke UP, 1988.  158-171.  
    • Lubbock, Percy.  The Craft of Fiction  New York: Viking, 1921. 
      • "The Craft of Fiction: Picture, Drama, and Point of View."  Approaches to the Novel: Materials for a Poetics.  Ed. Robert Scholes.  San Francisco: Chandler, 1966.  245-271.  
    • McKeon, Michael.  The Secret History of Domesticity: Public, Private, and the Division of Knowledge.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2005.
    • McKeon, Michael.  The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1987.
    • McKeon, Michael.  "Generic Transformation and Social Change: Rethinking the Rise of the Novel."  Cultural Critique 1 (1985): 159-181. 
      • Theory of the Novel: a Historical Approach.  Ed. Michael McKeon.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2000.  382-399.
    • Miller, D. A.  The Novel and the Police.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1988.
    • Parrinder, Patrick.  Nation and Novel: the English Novel from its Origins to the Present Day.  Oxford: OUP, 2005.
    • Robert, Marthe. 
      • Origins of the Novel.  Trans. Sacha Rabinovitch.  London: Harvester, 1980. 
        • Theory of the Novel: a Historical Approach.  Ed. Michael McKeon.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2000.  57-70 and 160-178.
    • Robbe-Grillet, Alain.  For a New Novel: Essays on Fiction.  Trans. Richard Howard.  New York: Grove, 1965.
    • Robbe-Grillet, Alain.  A Fresh Start for Fiction.  1957.
    • Visser, N. W.  "The Generic Identity of the Novel."  Novel 2.2 (1978): 101-114.
    • Ryan, Marie-Laure.  Narrative as Virtual Reality: Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2003.
    • Scholes, Robert, and Robert Kellogg.  The Nature of Narrative.  Oxford: OUP, 1966.
    • Uspensky, Boris.  A Poetics of Composition.  Trans. Valentina Zavarin and Susan Wittig.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1973.
    • Van Ghent, Dorothy.  The English Novel: Form and Function.  New York: , 1953.
    • Waugh, Patricia.  Metafiction: the Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction.  London: Routledge, 1984.
    • Semiotics:
      • Krysinski, Wladimir.  Carrefours des signes: Essais sur le roman moderne.  1982.
      • Le Huenen, Ronald, and Paul Perron.  Balzac: Semiotique du personnage romanesque: L'exemple d' "Eugénie Grandet".  1980.

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SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

  • Anthologies:

    • Gottschall, Jonathan, and David Sloan Wilson, eds.  The Literary Animal: the Evolution and the Nature of Narrative.  Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 2005.

    • Herman, David, Manfred Jahn, and Marie-Laure Ryan, eds.  Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative.  London: Routledge, 2005.
    • Herman, David, ed.  Cambridge Companion to Narrative.  Cambridge: CUP, 2007.
    • Nash, Christopher, ed.  Narrative in Culture: the Uses of Storytelling in the Sciences, Philosophy, and Literature.  London: Routledge, 1990.
    • Phelan, James, and Peter J. Rabinowitz, eds.  Blackwell Companion to Narrative Theory.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2005.
    • Richardson, Brian, ed.  Narrative Dynamics: Essays on Time, Plot, Closure, and Frames.  Athens: Ohio State UP, 2002.
    • Ryan, Marie-Laure, ed.  Narrative across Media: the Languages of Storytelling.  Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2004.
  • Selected Individual Works:

    • Abbott, H. Porter.  Cambridge Introduction to Narrative.  Cambridge: CUP, 2002.
    • Brooks, Cleanth, and Robert Penn Warren.  Understanding Fiction.  New York: Appleton-Century, 1943.
    • Chatman, Seymour.  Coming to Terms: the Rhetoric of Narrative in Fiction and Film.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1990.
    • Chatman, Seymour.  Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1978.
    • Cobley, Paul.  Narrative.  London: Routledge, 2001.
    • Culler, Jonathan.  "Fabula and Sjuzhet in the Analysis of Narrative: Some American Discussions."  Poetics Today 1.3 (1980): 27-37. 
      • Narratology:  an IntroductionEd. Susana Onega and José Ángel García Landes.  London: Longman,  1996.  93-102.
    • Currie, Mark.  Postmodern Narrative Theory.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1998.
    • Fludernik, Monik.  An Introduction to Narratology.  London: Routledge, 2008.
    • Harris, Wendell V.  "Narrative."  Dictionary of Concepts in Literary Criticism and Theory.  Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992.  255-258.
    • Harris, Wendell V.  "Narratology."  Dictionary of Concepts in Literary Criticism and Theory.  Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992.  258-266.
    • Herman, Luc, and Bart Vervaeck.  Handbook of Narrative Analysis.  Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2005.
    • Keen, Suzanne.  Narrative Form.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
    • Leech, Geoffrey N., and Michael H. Short.  Style in Fiction: a Linguistic Introduction to English Prose Fiction.  London: Longman, 1981.
    • Lodge, David.  After Bakhtin: Essays on Fiction and Criticism.  London: Routledge, 1990.
    • Lodge, David.  The Modes of Modern Writing: Metaphor, Metonymy and the Typology of Modern Literature.  London: Edwin Arnold; Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1977.
    • Lodge, David.  The Novelist at the Crossroads.  1971.
    • Lodge, David.  Language of Fiction: Essays in Criticism and Verbal Analysis of the English Novel.  London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1966.
    • Martin, Wallace.  Recent Theories of Narrative.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1986.
    • May, Charles.  The Short Story: The Reality of Artifice.  London: Routledge, 2000.
    • Miller, J. Hillis.  "Narrative."  Critical Terms for Literary Studies.  Ed. Frank Lentricchia and Thomas McLaughlin.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1990.  66-80.
    • Mullen, John.  How Novels Work.  Oxford: OUP, 2006.
    • Prince, Gerald.  "Narratology."  Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: from Formalism to Poststructuralism.  Vol. 8.  Ed. Raman Selden. 
    • Prince, Gerald.  A Dictionary of Narratology.  Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1987.
    • Rimmon-Kenan, Shlomith.  Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics.  London: Routledge, 1983.
    • Ryan, Marie-Laure.  "Linguistic Models in Narratology."  Semiotica 28 (1979): .
    • Schwarz, Daniel R.  The Humanistic Heritage: Critical Theories of the Novel from James to Hillis Miller.  Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1986.
    • Simmons, Ernest.  Introduction to Russian Realism.  
    • Sturgess, Philip.  Narrativity: Theory and Practice.  Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992.
    • Toolan, Michael.  Narrative: a Critical Linguistic Introduction.  London: Routledge, .
    • Williams, Ione.  The Realist Novel in England.  Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 1974.

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