... necessarily ground a novel's representations of single beings? 1 Catherine Gallagher has offered a compelling answer to these questions. As one of this essay's broader aims is to explore the boundaries between narrative theory and novel theory, I'd like to take her argument as a point of departure. Citing...

...Jonathan Arac Georg Lukács's Theory of the Novel locates the novel at a particular juncture within the history of Western spirit but not in relation to any specific social, political, or economic history. Mikhail Bakhtin, influenced by Lukács and also by Friedrich Schlegel's theorization...

... idea of the collection The Novel : “to make the literary field longer, larger, and deeper”—historically longer, geographically larger, and morphologically deeper than those few classics of nineteenth-century Western European “realism” that have dominated the recent theory of the novel (and my own work...

...Kathy Alexis Psomiades Both the novel and anthropology think about and through marriage and kinship. Furthermore, many of us use theories that ultimately originate in anthropology to think about how marriage and kinship work in the novel. This essay argues that the historical emergence...

...David Cunningham For Georg Lukács in his Theory of the Novel , if the abstraction inherent in the act of theorization itself is demanded in some way by the novel form, it is because in “the created reality” of the latter “totality can be systematized only in abstract terms.” Yet equally the novel...

... specificity and national tradition. My account is necessarily abbreviated and selective for purposes of this article, but the focus on works from four different national contexts allows me to make two key points regarding the history and theory of the socialist bildungsroman. First, my selection of examples...

...Vaughn Rasberry Abstract Reading British writer Francis Spufford's 2008 novel Red Plenty , a fictionalized account of life in the Soviet Union during the early Khrushchev years, this essay defends a bare theory of race against what it calls a novelistic theory of race. Whereas the latter—powerfully...

...Shai Ginsburg Notwithstanding these reservations, however, Bernard's Rhetorics of Belonging is a rich, insightful study of Israeli-Jewish and Palestinian literature as well as of postcolonial theory. Its greatest merit is that it links questions about Israeli-Jewish and Palestinian literature...

..., 1669 . Lafayette , Marie-Madeleine . comtesse de. La Princesse de Clèves . 1678. Paris: Gallimard, 2000 . Martin , Wallace . Recent Theories of Narrative . Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1986 . Nicole , Pierre . Les Imaginaires et les visionnaires . Cologne: Pierre Marteau, 1683...

...JONATHAN GREENBERG JOSEPH CARROLL, Literary Darwinism: Evolution, Human Nature, and Literature (New York: Routledge, 2004), pp. xxvii + 276, hardcover $85.00, paper, $23.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2004 2004 The Descent of Theory JOSEPH CARROLL, Literary...

...Cynthia Tolentino CHRISTOPHER DOUGLAS, A Genealogy of Literary Multiculturalism (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2009), pp. 384, cloth, $45.00. © 2010 by Novel, Inc. 2010 A Unified Field Theory for U.S. Ethnic Literature christopher douglas, A Genealogy of Literary Multiculturalism...

...Kevin Seidel By grappling with secular and religious approaches to Defoe's fiction, this essay describes the theory of fiction that Defoe writes his way toward during the course of his three-book Crusoe novel, which includes The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, The Farther...

...Stacey Margolis This essay investigates an early instance of “network theory” in order to argue that such theories did not, as most scholars suggest, emerge exclusively in the digital age. Charles Brockden Brown's Arthur Mervyn (1799–1800) attempts to theorize the information networks of the early...

...Ivan Kreilkamp JACKSON TONY E. , The Technology of the Novel: Writing and Narrative in British Fiction ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins UP , 2009 ), pp. 234 , cloth, $55.00 . © 2011 by Novel, Inc. 2011 Duke University Press Novel Theory for Homo Sapiens...

...Elaine Hadley As some readers of this review will know, Foucauldian theory has had a multigenerational grip on Victorian studies and its account of the novel, producing a range of very fine work but at this point seeming to inhibit rather than inspire innovative scholarship. Reform Acts...

... as a mathematical theory, and her formulations are rigorous and precise. Her absence from Coale's book is the more notable because his analysis needs an infusion of the kind of deep thinking that Barad embodies. By contrast, his book engages in a discursive inflation of quantum physics, wherein the rigor...

...Chloë Kitzinger Abstract This article argues that the early twentieth-century Dostoevsky criticism of Russian Symbolist thinkers, roughly contemporaneous with Henry James's New York Edition prefaces, laid the foundation for an alternative line of novel theory, engaged not with the novel's claim...

...Lloyd Pratt This short meditation on the relation of poststructuralism to the novel reframes poststructuralism as novel and considers the consequences of its rise and decline. Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 novel poststructuralism theory Some years ago—never mind how...

...Jed Esty Lukácsian narrative theory remains influential in literary studies despite the fact that many of its principles and conclusions seem specific to novel production within the industrializing heartland of the nineteenth-century European nation-state. Starting with the premise that two...

...Ian Duncan The publication of English translations of Georg Lukács's The Theory of the Novel (1971) and The Historical Novel (1962) inaugurated a major development in North American criticism of the past half century: the turn to Continental theory for an identification of the novel...