Theory of the Novel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Theory of the Novel write by Guido Mazzoni. This book was released on 2017-01-02. Theory of the Novel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In his theory of the novel, Guido Mazzoni explains that novels consist of stories told in any way whatsoever about the experiences of ordinary men and women who exist as contingent beings within time and space. Novels allow readers to step into other lives and other versions of truth, each a small, local world, absolute in its particularity.
Why We Read Fiction
Why We Read Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why We Read Fiction write by Lisa Zunshine. This book was released on 2006. Why We Read Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why We Read Fiction offers a lucid overview of the most exciting area of research in contemporary cognitive psychology known as "Theory of Mind" and discusses its implications for literary studies. It covers a broad range of fictional narratives, from Richardson s Clarissa, Dostoyevski's Crime and Punishment, and Austen s Pride and Prejudice to Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, Nabokov's Lolita, and Hammett s The Maltese Falcon. Zunshine's surprising new interpretations of well-known literary texts and popular cultural representations constantly prod her readers to rethink their own interest in fictional narrative. Written for a general audience, this study provides a jargon-free introduction to the rapidly growing interdisciplinary field known as cognitive approaches to literature and culture.
Theory of the Novel
Theory of the Novel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Theory of the Novel write by Philip Stevick. This book was released on 1967-10. Theory of the Novel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Comprehensive collections of theoretical essays on various facets of the novel.
Social Formalism
Social Formalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Social Formalism write by Dorothy J. Hale. This book was released on 1998. Social Formalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In recent decades, literary critics have praised novel theory for abandoning its formalist roots and defining the novel as a vehicle of social discourse. The old school of novel theory has long been associated with Henry James; the new school allies itself with the Russian theorist Mikhail Bakhtin. In this book, the author argues that actually it was the compatibility of Bakhtin with James that prompted Anglo-American theorists to embrace Bakhtin with such enthusiasm. Far from rejecting James, in other words, recent novel theorists have only refined Jamess foundational recharacterization of the novel as the genre that does not simply represent identity through its content but actually instantiates it through its form. Social Formalismdemonstrates the persistence of Jamess theoretical assumptions from his writings and those of his disciple Percy Lubbock through the critique of Jamesian theory by Roland Barthes, Wayne Booth, and Gérard Genette to the current Anglo-American assimilation of Bakhtin. It also traces the expansion of Jamess influence, as mediated by Bakhtin, into cultural and literary theory. Jamesian social formalism is shown to help determine the widely influential theories of minority identity expounded by such important cultural critics as Barbara Johnson and Henry Louis Gates. Social Formalismthus explains why a tradition that began by defining novelistic value as the formal instantiation of identity ends by defining minority political empowerment as aestheticized self-representation.
The Philosophy of the Novel
The Philosophy of the Novel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Philosophy of the Novel write by J. M. Bernstein. This book was released on 1984. The Philosophy of the Novel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Lukács's Theory of the novel has long been a key work in the philosophy but not the sociology of literature. J. M. Bernstein shows that Theory of the Novel must be seen in conjunction with History and Class Consciousness as a major contribution to a Marxist hermeneutics. He ties the philosophy of Lukács to Kant, Hegel, and Marx and contends that the categories structuring the novel are the central concepts of Kant's philosophy and that, therefore, the novel is marked by the same antinomies that infect Kant's system. Bernstein offers a concise account of dialectical theory and a telling analysis of Western (Hegelian) Marxism. He concludes with a critique of contemporary literary and critical practices, practices which only reinforce the antimonies already present in the novel. --From cover.
