Chapple, Science and Literature in the Nineteenth Century (1986) Peter Brooks, Reading for the Plot (1984) Wayne Booth, The Rhetoric of Fiction (1983)Īndré Brink, The Novel: Language and Narrative from Cervantes to Calvino (1998) Michael Bell, The Sentiment of Reality (1983) George Becker ed., Documents of Modern Literary Realism (1963) Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics (1984) Mikhail Bakhtin, The Dialogic Imagination (1981) Robert Alter, Partial Magic: The Novel as a Self-Conscious Genre (1975) This I point out not to reduce their potential contemporary relevance, nor their usefulness to understanding and enhancing your reading of novels, but to make you aware of their vintage when they present specific - sometimes historically specific - arguments and points. A few of the texts below are more than thirty years old. Be aware that academic study changes with times, trends and movements. You are also reminded of the bibliographic information supplied in lecture handouts. Different students have different needs and the essence of literary study is personal exploration – of the catalogue and shelves of the library, and of CD-Rom and online resources such as LION, JSTOR and MUSE, available through the library website. These suggestions are no more than that, and also no more than a starting point. Staff Intranet (Restricted permissions).Undergraduates (Restricted permissions).
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