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Tables of Contents for Theory of the Novel
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
xi
 
Introduction
xiii
 
Part One Genre Theory
1
70
From Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays
5
9
Northrop Frye
From Validity in Interpretation
14
20
E. D. Hirsch
From Literature as System: Essays toward the Theory of Literary History
34
17
Claudio Guillen
Toward a Theory of Non-Genre Literature
51
6
Jonathan Culler
From Origins of the Novel
57
14
Marthe Robert
Part Two The Novel as Displacement I: Structuralism
71
74
The Storyteller
77
17
Walter Benjamin
From The Savage Mind
94
28
Claude Levi-Strauss
From The Origin of Table Manners
100
4
How Myths Die
104
9
From The Naked Man
113
9
From Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays
122
23
Northrop Frye
From Fables of Identity: Studies in Poetic Mythology
131
8
From The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance
139
6
Part Three The Novel as Displacement II: Psychoanalysis
145
34
From The Interpretation of Dreams
149
11
Sigmund Freud
Family Romances
156
4
From Origins of the Novel
160
19
Marthe Robert
Part Four Grand Theory I
179
86
From The Theory of the Novel: A Historico-Philosophical Essay on the Forms of Great Epic Literature
185
80
George Lukacs
From The Historical Novel
219
46
Part Five Grand Theory II
265
52
From Meditations on Quixote
271
46
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Notes on the Novel
294
23
Part Six Grand Theory III
317
38
From The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays
321
34
Mikhail M. Bakhtin
Part Seven Revisionist Grand Theory
355
80
From The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding
363
19
Ian Watt
From Generic Transformation and Social Change: Rethinking the Rise of the Novel
382
18
Michael McKeon
From The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act
400
14
Fredric Jameson
From Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
414
21
Benedict Anderson
Part Eight Privacy, Domesticity, Women
435
50
From The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding
441
26
Ian Watt
From Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel
467
9
Nancy Armstrong
From Domestic Individualism: Imagining Self in Nineteenth-Century America
476
9
Gillian Brown
Part Nine Subjectivity, Character, Development
485
102
From Transparent Minds: Narrative Modes for Presenting Consciousness in Fiction
493
22
Dorrit Cohn
From Unspeakable Sentences: Narration and Representation in the Language of Fiction
515
22
Ann Banfield
Characters, Persons, Selves, Individuals
537
17
Amelie Oksenberg Rorty
From The Way of the World: The Bildungsroman in European Culture
554
12
Franco Moretti
From The Historicity of Romantic Discourse
566
21
Clifford Siskin
Part Ten Realism
587
70
From Language and Materialism: Developments in Semiology and the Theory of the Subject
593
7
Rosalind Coward
John Ellis
From Prose Fiction: Great Britain
600
13
Michael McKeon
From The Realistic Imagination: English Fiction from Frankenstein to Lady Chatterley
613
19
George Levine
From The Development of American Romance
632
25
Michael Davitt Bell
Part Eleven Photography, Film, and the Novel
657
76
From Preface to The Golden Bowl
665
8
Henry James
From The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
673
23
Walter Benjamin
From Film and Fiction: The Dynamics of Exchange
696
23
Keith Cohen
In Defense of Mixed Cinema
719
14
Andre Bazin
Part Twelve Modernism
733
70
Modern Fiction
739
20
Virginia Woolf
Mr. Bennet and
745
14
Mrs. Brown
From Realism in Our Time: Literature and the Class Struggle
759
25
George Lukacs
From Spatial Form in Modern Literature
784
19
Joseph Frank
Part Thirteen The New Novel, the Postmodern Novel
803
48
From For a New Novel: Essays on Fiction
809
21
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Historiographic Metafiction
830
21
Linda Hutcheon
Part Fourteen The Colonial and Postcolonial Novel
851
72
Latin American Literature from the ``Boom'' On
859
23
Doris Sommer
George Yudice
Is the Post-in Postmodernism the Post-in Postcolonial?
882
18
Kwame Anthony Appiah
The Politics of the Possible
900
23
Kumkum Sangari
Suggested Further Reading
923
4
Contributors
927
4
Source Acknowledgments
931
6
Index to Introduction and Headnotes
937
4
Index to Authors and Works
941