Reading Group: Theory of the Novel (Spring 2025)

23 Jan              Genre: Frye & Benjamin

30 Jan              Grand Theory I: Lukács, The Theory of the Novel

6 Feb               Grand Theory I: Lukács, The Historical Novel

13 Feb             Grand Theory II: Ortega

20 Feb             Grand Theory III: Bakhtin

27 Feb             Revisionist Theory I: Watt & McKeon

6 Mar              Revisionist Theory II: Jameson & Anderson

13 Mar            Gender: Woolf*, Armstrong, Brown, Gallagher*

20 Mar             Free Indirect Discourse I: Cohn & Banfield

27 Mar             Free Indirect Discourse II: Bewes*

3 Apr               Revisionist Theory III: Moretti*

10 Apr             Psychoanalysis:Girard* & Brooks*

8 May)            Modernism: Woolf & Frank

15 May            Postmodernism: Robbe-Grillet & Hutcheon

22 May            Postcolonialism: Sommer/Yudice & Appiah

28 May            21^st-Century: Smith*, Roth*, Clover*

Excepting names with asterisks, all selections above are from Michael McKeon, ed. Theory of the Novel: A Historical Approach (Johns Hopkins UP, 2000).