Essentials of the Theory of Fiction, 2nd ed. - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822318237 ISBN 13: 9780822318231

Publisher: Duke University Press, 1996

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., Gerard Genette, J. Arthur Honeywell, Linda Hutcheon, Henry James, Susan S. Lanser, Mitchell A. Leaska, George Levine, David Lodge, Georg Lukacs, Gerald Prince, Patrocinio P. Schweickart, Tzvetan Todorov, Lionel Trilling, and Virginia Woolf

About this title

Review:

"That there was a perceived need to produce a third, expanded edition of this anthology of essays on the theory of fiction speaks volumes about both the user-friendliness and value of such single-volume compendia. . . . This remains a volume that reminds critics that progress is often not the latest thing in the marketplace but critical pieces that have stood the test of time."
--"Forum for Modern Language Studies"

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0822318237
• ISBN 13: 9780822318231
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 528
• Editor: Murphy Patrick D., Hoffman Michael J.