Essentials of the Theory of Fiction

The art of fiction, Henry James; Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown, Virginia Wolf; Flat and round characters, E.M. Foster; Epic and novel, M.M. Bakhtin; Spatial form in modern literature, Joseph Frank; Manners, morals and the novel, Lionel Trilling; Writing and the novel, Roland Barthes; What makes a short story short? Norman Friedman; Distance and point-of-view - an essay in classifications, Wayne Booth; Marxist aesthetics and literary realism, Georg Lukacs; Plot in the modern novel, J. Arthur Honeywell; The concept of point of view, Mitchell A. Leaska; The concept of character in fiction, William H. Gass; Time and narrative in "A la recherche du temps perdu", Gerard Genette; The literary motif - a definition and evaluation, William Freedman; Introduction to the study of the narratee, Gerald Prince; Realism reconsidered, George Levine; Discourse - non-narrated stories, Seymor Chatman; Reading as construction, Tzvetan Todorov; The literature of replenishment, John Barth; Defining the short story - impressionism and form, Suzanne C. Ferguson; The blackness of blackness - a critique on the sign and the signifying monkey, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; Reading for the plot, Peter Brooks; Mimesis and diegesis in modern fiction, David Lodge; Breaking the sentence, breaking the sequence, Rachel Blau DuPlessis; The documentary novel and the problem of borders, Barbara Foley; Reading ourselves - towards a feminist theory of reading, Patrocino P. Schweichart; Politics, literary form and a feminist poetics of the novel, Joanne S. Frye; Towards a feminist narratology, Susan S. Lanser; "The pastime of past time" - fiction, history, historiographical metafiction, Linda Hutcheon.