Danielle’s Week 15 notes

I’ve included my Week 15 notes (last class!) on Henry James and Oscar Wilde.  

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Danielle’s Week 15 notes

I’ve included my Week 15 notes (last class!) on Henry James and Oscar Wilde.  

April 30, 2013 / Comments Off on Danielle’s Week 15 notes

Dames on the “Theory Generation”

Here is the Nick Dames essay in N + 1 on the “Theory Generation.” True, the argument that we can trace the ideas of writers like Jonathan Franzen or Jeffrey Eugenides to their theory-immersed Liberal Arts days in the early 1980’s is

Elaine Freedgood, from “Realism, Fetishism, and Genocide”

dorothy van ghent, from THE ENGLISH NOVEL

dorrit cohn: from TRANSPARENT MINDS

wimsatt & beardsley: “the intentional fallacy”

george levine: from THE REALISTIC IMAGINATION

frederic jameson: “the realist floor-plan”

roland barthes: “the reality effect”