Essentials of the Theory of Fiction, 2nd ed.

ISBN 10: 0822318237 / ISBN 13: 9780822318231

Published by Duke University Press, 1996

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Essentials of the Theory of Fiction, 2nd ed.
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0822318237
• ISBN 13: 9780822318231
• Binding: paperback
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

This second edition of Essentials of the Theory of Fiction provides a comprehensive view of the theory of fiction from the nineteenth century, through modernism and postmodernism, to the present. Expanded and revised, it has new selections from contemporary theorists, including Henry Louis Gates Jr., Peter Brooks, Linda Hutcheon, David Lodge, Barbara Foley, and others.

Selections from: M. M. Bakhtin, John Barth, Roland Barthes, Wayne Booth, Peter Brooks, Seymour Chatman, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Suzanne C. Ferguson, Barbara Foley, E. M. Forster, Joseph Frank, William Freedman, Norman Friedman, Joanne S. Frye, William H. Gass, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Gérard Genette, J. Arthur Honeywell, Linda Hutcheon, Henry James, Susan S. Lanser, Mitchell A. Leaska, George Levine, David Lodge, Georg Lukács, Gerald Prince, Patrocinio P. Schweickart, Tzvetan Todorov, Lionel Trilling, and Virginia Woolf

About the Author

Michael J. Hoffman is Professor of English at the University of California, Davis. Patrick D. Murphy is Professor of English at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania.