What accounts for the power of stories to both entertain and
illuminate? This question has long compelled the attention of
storytellers and students of literature alike, and over the past
several decades it has opened up broader dialogues about the nature
of culture and interpretation. This third edition of the
bestselling 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. It
offers a sample of major theories of fictional technique while
emphasizing recent developments in literary criticism. The essays
cover a variety of topics, including voice, point of view,
narration, sequencing, gender, and race. Ten new selections address
issues such as oral memory in African American fiction,
temporality, queer theory, magical realism, interactive narratives,
and the effect of virtual technologies on literature. For students
and generalists alike, Essentials of the Theory of Fiction is an
invaluable resource for understanding how fiction
works.Contributors. M. M. Bakhtin, John Barth, Roland Barthes,
Wayne Booth, John Brenkman, Peter Brooks, Catherine Burgass,
Seymour Chatman, J. Yellowlees Douglas, Rachel Blau DuPlessis,
Wendy B. Faris, Barbara Foley, E. M. Forster, Joseph Frank, Joanne
S. Frye, William H. Gass, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Gerard Genette,
Ursula K. Heise, Michael J. Hoffman, Linda Hutcheon, Henry James,
Susan S. Lanser, Helen Lock, Georg Lukacs, Patrick D. Murphy, Ruth
Ronen, Joseph Tabbi, Jon Thiem, Tzvetan Todorov, Virginia Woolf
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