... Blanchot. Along the Fatal Narrative Turn (Toward an Anarchic Theory of Literary History) Gerald L. Bruns Late in September 1958, in a hotel in Stockholm, I set about writing this lec- ture for delivery a week later at the Brussels Fair. I recalled a remark made...

... a specifically narrative theory of the detail. This is also a political theory: the fact that she places large and small side by side, often in the same sentence, speaks to her commitment to tracing connections between the particular and the abstract, the mundane and the mystical, the internal world of thoughts...

... Oyeyemi’s Boy, Snow, Bird (2014). cel235@cornell.edu Copyright © 2023 by University of Washington 2023 structuralism narrative theory close reading pedagogy Structures All the Way Down: Literary Methods and the Detail Caroline Levine Abstract This essay makes the case that most methods...

.... Keywords queer theory, narratology, character-detail, relationality, affect D o queer characters matter? Does their presence make any difference to a narrative s style, structure, meaning, or politics? Perhaps surprisingly, queer theory tends to answer with a decisive no. The detective may be a lesbian...

... for the advent of a commercial modernity that renders judgment all but obsolete. Refusing the sentimental (Richardsonian) and aesthetic (Shaftesburian) responses to this social theory as also complicit in the elision of judgment, Fielding works to transform the emerging novel into a narrative and aesthetic form...

...Samuel Baker It is well known that Walter Scott adapted the forms of sentimental fiction for his initial trilogy of novels on Scottish manners and that he drew on philosophical theories of sympathy when conceiving of his characters and placing them in historical relation to one another and to his...

...Michal Kobialka The “after theory” syndrome silently renounced historiography as radical thought and substituted a closed, retrospective framework to conceptualize the ontology of theater/performance history. In its postmodern/post-utopian universe, historicizing largely contents itself...

... of Signorelli’s Critical History and Mat- thews’s Development of the Drama, a particular narrative had become stan- dard in theater history. This narrative was correlated with the theory of “stadial” development, first articulated in mid-eighteenth-century Enlightenment thought: the view that human history...

...Michal Peled Ginsburg Michal Peled Ginsburg is professor of French and comparative literature at Northwestern University. Her areas of research are nineteenth-century French literature and culture, the nineteenth-century French and British novel, and narrative theory. Her new book...

...-and not incidentally-an elder of the Communist Party); the “humorist,”Lao She (1899- 1966);and the celebrant of rural life, Shen Congwen (1902-88). In examining these writers’ stories and novels, Wang wields an impressive body of contempo- rary Western narrative theory; his chapters on Lao She and Shen...

..., Wheel- wright, Burke, and Vaihinger. For example, he convincingly demonstrates Vaihinger’s positivistic biases, and so suggests the limitations of the poetic and narrative theories of‘ that philosopher’s literar), disciples, Wallace Ste- vens arid Frank Ker-mode. ‘I’hus the occasion...

... (e.g., Circe and Penelope). When Abraham uses Teresa de Lauretis to argue that narrative is the mapping of sexual difference into positionalities of desire (z), she seems to forget that de Lauretis defines the heroic narrative as well as the romantic story. In this version of narrative theory...

... fifty essays on topics in narrative theory, sexuality, gender, the novel, and eighteenth-century culture. Among these, “Befriending the Body: Female Intimacies as Class Acts,” won the Modern Language Association’s Cromp- ton-Noll Award in 1999. She is completing a book tentatively titled...

...David Kurnick David Kurnick is associate professor of English at Rutgers University, where he teaches nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, the history of the novel, and narrative theory. He is author of Empty Houses: Theatrical Failure and the Novel (2012) and of recent...

... , and Benveniste Mike . 2013 . “ A Scientific Justification for Literature: Jane Austen’s Free Indirect Style as Ethical Tool .” Journal of Narrative Theory 43 , no. 1 : 1 – 18 . Gellner Ernest . 1983 . Nations and Nationalism . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press . Gellner Ernest...

.... Dalloway (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1925), 20. On these narrator-airplanes’ relationship to con- temporary theories of war see Paul Saint-Amour, “Air War Prophecy and Interwar Modernism,” Comparative Literature Studies 42 (2005): 130 – 61. Fielding  James and Narrative Technology...

...Michal Peled Ginsburg Michal Peled Ginsburg is professor of French and comparative literature at Northwestern University. Her areas of research are nineteenth-century French literature and culture, the nineteenth-century French and British novel, and narrative theory. In the area of Jewish...

... of life is thus one of slow but steady ‘I In this connection, see two of my essays: “Contemporary Cosmology and Narrative Theory” in Literalure and Science: Theory and Practice, ed. Stuart Peterfreund (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1990), pp. 91-1 12; and “Negcnuopy, Noise...

... for a narrative prominence that 1 Dorothy J. Hale, Social Formalism: The Novel in Theory from Henry James to the Present (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998). Matz Review 403 would match Parisian eminence. The One vs. the Many also...

... societies but “brings an inherently social dimension to narrative form as such” (17). Never are these homologies crudely drawn. In every case Woloch traces them into fi ne readings and elegant theories. He manages to justify the bold claim that “minor characters are the proletariat of the novel...