cfthe Novel A Historical Approach Edited by Michael McKeon The Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore & London

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1 Theory cfthe Novel A Historical Approach Edited by Michael McKeon The Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore & London

2 Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction xiii Part One Genre Theory i. NORTHROP FRYE / From Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays 5 2. E. D. HIRSCH / From Validity in Interpretation CLAUDIO GUILLEN / From Literature as System: Essays toward the Theory of Literary History JONATHAN CULLER / Toward a Theory of Non-Genre Literature MARTHE ROBERT / From Origins of the Novel 57 Part Two The Novel as Displacement I: Structuralism 7 1 A 6. WALTER BENJAMIN / The Storyteller yj 7. CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS / FromThe Savage Mind 94 / From The Origin of Table Manners 100 / How Myths Die 104 / From The Naked Man NORTHROP FRYE / From Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays 122 / From Fables of Identity: Studies in Poetic Mythology 131 / From The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance 139

3 Part Three The Novel as Displacement II: Psychoanalysis SIGMUND FREUD / From The Interpretation of Dreams 149 / Family Romances MARTHE ROBERT / From Origins of the Novel 160 Part Four Grand Theory I GEORG LUKACS / From The Theory of the Novel: A Historico-Philosophical Essay on the Forms of Great Epic Literature 185 / From The Historical Novel 219 Part Five Grand Theory II JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET / From Meditations on Quixote 271 / Notes on the Novel 294 Part Six Grand Theory III MIKHAIL M. BAKHTIN / From The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays 321 Part Seven Revisionist Grand Theory IAN WATT / From The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding 363

4 15. MICHAEL MCKEON / Generic Transformation and Social Change: Rethinking the Rise of the Novel FREDRIC JAMESON / From The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act 400 ^ 17. BENEDICT ANDERSON / From Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism IAN WATT / From The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding NANCY ARMSTRONG / From Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel GILLIAN BROWN / From Domestic Individualism: Imagining Self in Nineteenth-Century America 476 Part Eight Privacy, Domesticity, Women 435 Part Nine Subjectivity, Character, Development DORRIT COHN / From Transparent Minds: Narrative Modes for Presenting Consciousness in Fiction ANN BANFIELD / From Unspeakable Sentences: Narration and Representation in the Language of Fiction AMELIE OKSENBERG RORTY / Characters, Persons, Selves, Individuals FRANCO MORETTI / FromThe. Way of the World: The Bildungsroman in European Culture CLIFFORD SISKIN / From The Historicity of Romantic Discourse 566

5 Part Ten Realism ROSALIND COWARD AND JOHN ELLIS / From Language and Materialism: Developments in Semiology and the Theory of the Subject MICHAEL MCKEON / From Prose Fiction: Great Britain GEORGE LEVINE / ^From The Realistic Imagination: English Fiction from Frankenstein to Lady Chatterley MICHAEL DAVITT BELL / From The Development of American Romance 632 Part Eleven Photography, Film, and the Novel HENRY JAMES / From Preface to The Golden Bowl WALTER BENJAMIN / The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction KEITH COHEN / From Film and Fiction: The Dynamics of Exchange ANDRE BAZIN / In Defense of Mixed Cinema 719 Part Twelve Modernism VIRGINIA WOOLF / Modern Fiction 739 / Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown GEORG LUKACS / From Realism in Our Time: Literature and the Class Struggle JOSEPH FRANK / From Spatial Form in Modern Literature 784

6 Part Thirteen The New Novel, the Postmodern Novel ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET / From For a New Novel: Essays on Fiction 809 X 38. LINDA HUTCHEON / Historiographic Metafiction 830 Part Fourteen The Colonial and Postcolonial Novel 851 5(39. DORIS SOMMER AND GEORGE YUDICE / Latin American Literature from the "Boom" On KWAME ANTHONY APPIAH / Is the Post- in Postmodernism the Post- in Postcolonial? KUMKUM SANGARI / The Politics of the Possible 900 y Suggested Further Reading 923 Contributors 927 Source Acknowledgments 931 Index to Introduction and Headnotes 937 Index to Authors and Works 941