Dorothy J. Hale

The Novel

An Anthology of Criticism and Theory 1900-2000
Herausgeber: Hale, Dorothy J

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Novel: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory 1900-2000 is a comprehensive collection of the most influential writings on the theory of the novel from the twentieth century. This volume charts the invention of novel theory as a field, its rise to prominence within literary studies, and the expansion of its influence into interdisciplinary theories of society, politics and culture. The anthology is broad in scope, featuring sections on formalism; the Chicago School; structuralism and narratology; deconstruction; psychoanalysis; Marxism; social discourse; gender; post-colonialism; and more. Critical introductions to each section help students to see connections between different schools of thought. Other aids to study include a volume introduction, a selected bibliography, a comprehensive index, and short author biographies. Whole essays or chapters are included wherever possible. The anthology as a whole encourages students to approach theoretical texts with confidence, applying the same skills they bring to literary texts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 848
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 247mm x 209mm x 49mm
• Gewicht: 1606g
• ISBN-13: 9781405107730
• ISBN-10: 1405107731
• Artikelnr.: 22271708

Autorenporträt

Dorothy J. Hale is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Social Formalism: The Novel in Theory from Henry James to the Present (1998), which won the George and Barbara Perkins Prize given yearly by the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature for the best book published on narrative.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

1. Form and Function.

2. The Chicago School.

3. Structuralism and Narratology.

4. Deconstruction.

5. Psychoanalytic Approaches.

6. Marxist Approaches.

7. Histories of the Novel, Narratives of History.

8. Reader Response.

9. The Novel as Social Discourse.

10. Gender and the Novel.

11. Post-Colonialism and the Novel.

12. Post-Modernism and the Novel.

Index

Rezensionen

"Readers of Dorothy J. Hale's The Novel: An Anthology ofCriticism and Theory 1900-2000 will find the volume to be twobooks in one. One book is the anthology proper, which bringstogether essays that theorize the complex nature and history ofnovelistic fiction. Those essays became classroom classics incolleges and universities during the last forty years of the 20thcentury. The second is a virtual book of its own comprised ofHale's brilliant introductions to the theoretical essays.Elaborating each of the essays, interweaving their significance andthe significance of the schools of theory from which the essaysderive, Hale's meditations are a supplemental bonus to all teachersand students with a taste for 'novel theory.' "Robert L. Caserio, author of Plot, Story and the Novel andThe Novel in England 1900-1950: History and Theory.