本书是上海外语教育出版社“文学研习丛书”系列中的一本,引进自Bloomsbury出版社。分九个章节:小说与虚构,历史、体裁和文化,较短的虚构,现实主义、现代主义、后现代主义及以后,虚构作品分析、小说学习,版本、改变和翻译,虚构作品批评的不同路径,世界文学和虚构,内容非常丰富。本书标题看似老调,论述却富有新意;语言简单,而意义明晰、深厚。本书是外语文学批评和研究的一本很有分量的参考书。
Introduction to the Seventh Edition
1 Fiction and the Novel
The universality and the distinctiveness of fiction
Fiction,play,fantasy
Imaginary characters and real life
Prose
Narrative
Characters,action,plot
Novel,short story,novella
2 History,Genre,Culture
When was the novel born?
Ancestors and close relations
Novel and romance
Life and pattern
The "rise of the novel"
3 Shorter Fiction
The short story
The novella
4 Realism,Modernism,Postmodernism—and Beyond
Realism
Modernism
Postmodernism
The electronic revolution
5 Analyzing Fiction
Prose fiction and formal analysis
Narrative technique
Character
Plot
Structure
Setting
Theme
Symbol and image
Speech and dialogue
6 Studying the Novel
Studying the novel in the digital age
Reading,responding,criticizing
How to take notes
Using critics
Using computers
Revision/review
Essays and examinations
7 Versions,Adaptations,Translations
Versions
Adaptations
Translations
8 Critical Approaches to Fiction
Courses and approaches
Categorizing criticism
Narratology: Structuralist and rhetorical
The literary critical tradition
Textual approaches
Contextual approaches
Ideological approaches
9 World Literature and Fiction
World Literature
For whom does the novel speak today?
Fiction,truth,and(recent)history
Timeline of the Novel
Glossary of Terms
Bibliography
Index