Proust), 198, 218, 222–3, 239, 257, 288; 8, 258, 274, 280 Anagnorisis (Recognition), 26; Aarne, Antti, 181 Catharsis, 107; Dialectical Problem, Abbott, H

Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-03366-5 — Narrative Theory Kent Puckett Index More Information

Index

20 Master Plots and How to Build Arendt, Hannah, 36 Them (Tobias), 188 Aristotle, 2, 4, 14, 24–47, 60, 63, 65, 70, 74–5, 81, 107, 112, 126, 178, 182, À la recherche du temps perdu (Proust), 198, 218, 222–3, 239, 257, 288; 8, 258, 274, 280 anagnorisis (recognition), 26; Aarne, Antti, 181 catharsis, 107; dialectical problem, Abbott, H. Porter, 4, 22, 27, 39, 47; Poetics, 14, 24–46, 49, 52, 54, 129, 306 70, 114, 121, 123, 136; Topics,47 Abraham & Isaac, the story of, 167, 170 “Art as Technique” (Shklovsky), 191–2 Abrams, M.H., 71–2 Artaud, Antonin, 225 Adorno, Theodor, 260 artistic motivation (Tomashevsky), Aesthetics (Hegel), 137 201, 204, 214 Alber, Jan, 331 Auerbach, Erich, 14, 23, 165–75; Alber, Jan & Monika Fludernik, 306 “Figura,” 171; legend & history, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland 174; Mimesis: The Representation (Carroll), 194 of Reality in Western Literature, Alive (Marshall), 28 165–75 Althusser, Louis, 91, 212, 332; Austen, Jane, 48, 202, 204; “First “Ideology and Ideological State Impressions,” 202; Pride and Apparatuses,” 91 Prejudice, 202–3, 269 The Ambassadors (James), 124–5 anachrony (Genette), 11, 92, 110, Bakhtin, Mikhail, 5, 14, 23, 48, 55, 70, 264 84, 93, 125, 134, 153–65, 193, 204, anagnorisis, recognition (Aristotle), 26 214, 220, 225, 229, 231, 243, 247, analepsis (Genette), 11, 256–7, 264, 253, 267, 288; “The 266, 274, 281 Bildungsroman and Its “Analysis Terminable and Signiﬁcance in the History of Interminable” (Freud), 117 Realism,” 182; chronotope, 15, Anderson, Benedict, 58, 319 157, 229, 231, 253, 267, 288; The Antigone (Sophocles), 50–1 Dialogic Imagination, 153; antinomy, 13, 18, 62, 93, 153, 232, Rabelais and His World, 153, 155; 254–5, 287 Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics, Apollo & Dionysos, 95, 111, 153–4; Toward a Philosophy of the 113, 222 Act, 153

339

340 Index

Bal, Mieke, 130, 306; Narratology: The Bible, 167, 173 Introduction to the Theory of Bieiser, Frederick, 74 Narrative, 130 Bildungsroman,70–1, 75 Bally, Charles, 206 “The Bildungsroman and Its Balzac, Honoré de, 90, 204, 242, 244, Signiﬁcance in the History of 247, 249, 251, 278, 286; Père Realism” (Bakhtin), 182 Goriot, 80, 249; Sarrasine, 242–3 biography, 128, 146 “Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of The Birth of Tragedy (Nietzsche), 93 Wall Street” (Melville), 199 Black, Jeremy, 240 Barthes, Roland, 3, 5, 13–14, 23, 53, 55, Blok, Alexander, 190 65, 84, 93, 117, 180, 185, 190, 197, Bonaparte, Louis, 81, 85 209, 213, 216, 223–4, 226, 231, Booker, Christopher, 188; The Seven 233–57, 259, 274, 277, 280; Basic Plots, 188 connotation & denotation, 242, Booth, Wayne, 31, 68, 131, 319; The 246, 252; Criticism and Truth, Rhetoric of Fiction, 131, 319 235; Elements of Semiology, 210, Bordwell, David, 180, 184, 187 234; “An Introduction to the Borges, Jorge Luis, 271 Structural Analysis of Narratives,” Bourdieu, Pierre, 89 185, 233–42, 245; jouissance, 117; Bowie, Malcolm, 258, 284 Mythologies, 234, 250, 254; Bowstring: On the Dissimilarity of the readerly & writerly, 231, 233, 240, Similar (Shklovsky), 191, 326 243, 247, 254, 277–8; “The Reality Boyd, Brian, 22 Effect,” 237; S/Z: An Essay, 14, Boym, Svetlana, 21 223, 233, 240, 242–56, 277, 286; Bradley, A.C., 49, 84; Shakespearean “Utopia,” 255; Writing Degree Tragedy,84 Zero, 234, 243, Braudel, Ferdinand, 216 252, 277 Breaking Bad (Gilligan), 45 base & superstructure (Marx), 90, 109, Bremond, Claude, 180, 185 141, 196, 257, 261 Breton, André, 64 “Base and Superstructure in Marxist Bretton Woods Agreement, 242 Cultural Theory” (Williams), 92 Breuer, Josef, 107 Bataille, Georges, 64, 225 Bridget Jones’s Diary (Fielding), Beckett, Samuel, 243 129 Beethoven, Ludwig van, 58 “Bright Morning Star” (Wright), 61 Bely, Andrey, 190 Bringing Out Roland Barthes Benjamin, Walter, 60, 148; “The (Miller), 248 Storyteller,” 60 Brontë, Charlotte, 101, 131; Jane Eyre, Benveniste, Émile, 239; “The Nature of 29, 100, 131, 203 Pronouns,” 239 Brooks, Peter, 69, 82–3, 115, 133; Bernstein, J.M., 143 narrative desire, 69, 82; Reading Between Women: Friendship, Desire, for the Plot: Design and Intention and Marriage in Victorian in Narrative, 115 England (Marcus), 186 Bruner, Jerome, 307 Beyond the Pleasure Principle Buck-Morss, Susan, 57–8; Hegel, Haiti, (Freud), 114 and Universal History,58

Index 341

Burckhardt, Jacob, 86 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 199; willing Burian, Peter, 34, 49 suspension of disbelief, 199 Bushnell, Rebecca, 37 Colley, Linda, 319 Butler, Judith, 71, 312 Columbo, 264 Comay, Rebecca, 59–60, 62, 84 Capital (Marx), 82 The Comforters (Spark), 271 Carlyle, Thomas, 22 “Coming Unstrung: Women, Men, Cassirer, Ernst, 158 Narrative, and the Principles of Cast Away (Zemeckis), 28 Pleasure” (Winnett), 115 Caston, Victor, 309 Communications, 234 Catch-22 (Heller), 9 The Communist Manifesto (Marx), 82 catharsis (Aristotle), 32, 34, Community and Civil Society 40, 107 (Tönnies), 140 Cervantes, Miguel de, 48–75, 149; Don comparative analysis of narrative Quixote, 149 forms, 14–15, 123, 154, 165, 173, Chaplin, Charlie, 86; The Great 176, 185, 187, 213, 220, 260 Dictator,86 competence & performance “Characteristics” (Carlyle), 22 (Chomsky), 209 Chatman, Seymour, 25, 131, 197, 237, compositional motivation 306, 308, 321, 332; Story and (Tomashevsky), 198, 204 Discourse: Narrative Structure in condensation & displacement Fiction and Film, 237 (Freud), 109 Chaucer, Geoffrey, 48; “The Monk’s conﬂict, 36–7, 42, 47, 49, 64–5, 70, 75, Prologue,” 48 79, 85, 97, 113–14, 209, 221–2, 288 Chekhov, Anton, 77, 198; riﬂe, Congdon, Lee, 57 Chekhov’s, 77 connotation & denotation (Barthes), Chomsky, Noam, 209; competence & 242, 246, 252 performance, 209 Conrad, Joseph, 268; Lord Jim, 268 Chrétien de Troyes, 165 Corneille, Pierre, 47–8, 114 chronotope (Bakhtin), 15, 157, 229, Cortázar, Julio, 271 231, 253, 267, 288 Course in General Linguistics Citizen Kane (Welles), 30, 263 (Saussure), 206 Civilization and Its Discontents The Craft of Fiction (Lubbock), 319 (Freud), 110, 114 Criticism and Truth (Barthes), 235 Cixous, Hélène, 280 Culler, Jonathan, 5, 10, 209, 211, 257, Clarissa, or, the History of a Young 260, 262, 287 Lady (Richardson), 202 curiosity (Sternberg), 169 Clark, Katerina & Michael Holquist, 155–6 Dante, 48 Cohen, Herman, 158–9 De Quincey, Thomas, 40, 42 Cohen, Margaret, 17, 52, 89; The The Death-Bound Subject: Richard Sentimental Education of the Wright’s Archeology of Death Novel,89 (JanMohamed), 61 Cole, Andrew, 59, 64 death drive (Freud), 114, 116, 118

342 Index

deep structure (Greimas), 103, 220, Einstein, Albert, 158 228, 245, 253, 288 The Elementary Structures of Kinship defamiliarization, 20, 193, 195, 216, (Lévi-Strauss), 216 228, 257 Elements of Semiology (Barthes), Defoe, Daniel, 48; Robinson Crusoe, 210, 234 147 ellipsis (Genette), 265, 283 Derrida, Jacques, 82, 113, 216, 224, Ellison, Ralph, 162 226, 332 emergent (Williams), 92, 110, 203 Descombes, Vincent, 64, 216 Energy of Delusion (Shklovsky), 191 dialectical problem (Aristotle), 47 entertainment novel (Lukács), 145, The Dialogic Imagination (Bakhtin), 153 151–2 Dibelius, Wilhelm, 182 Erlich, Victor, 190, 196 Dickens, Charles, 268; Great esoteric writing, 19, 42, 121, 261 Expectations, 80, 129, 147, 268 Exercises in Style (Queneau), 6, 314 Diderot, Denis, 271 Didion, Joan, 21; “The White Album,” fabula & sjuzhet, 7, 10, 73, 189–90, 21 196, 199 diegetic levels (Genette), 100, 102, 197, fact & value, 75, 141–3, 146, 153, 161, 203, 269, 271 172, 178, 213, 257, 288 disenchantment, 143–4, 288 farce, 85, 88 Dolezel, Lubomir, 201 Favret, Mary, 59 dominant (Williams), 92, 203 Ferrell, Will, 271 Don Quixote (Cervantes), 149 ﬁcelle (James), 124 Don’t Look Now (Roeg), 11 Fictions of Authority: Women Writers Dosse, François, 179, 190, 213, 226 and Narrative Voice (Lanser), Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 7, 125, 152–3, 162, 203 159, 163, 204, 229; Notes from Fight Club (Fincher), 28 Underground,7 “Figura” (Auerbach), 171 Douglas, Frederick, 162 Finlayson, J.G., 50 Douglas, Kirk, 266 Finnegan’sWake(Joyce), 233 Duncan, Ian, 17; Scott’s Shadow: The “First Impressions” (Austen), 202 Novel in Romantic Edinburgh,17 Flaubert, Gustave, 149, 243; Madame Dundes, Alain, 186 Bovary, 80; Sentimental Education, 149 Eagleton, Terry, 16, 70 Fleming, Ian, 240; Goldﬁnger, 240 Eckermann, Johann Peter, 188 Flesch, William, 309 Eco, Umberto, 234 Fleschenberg, Otmar Schissel von, 182 Edelman, Lee, 116, 118; No Future: Fludernik, Monika, 5, 12, 27, 256, 260, Queer Theory and the Death 262, 331; Towards a “Natural” Drive, 116 Narratology,27 Edge of Tomorrow (Liman), 273 focalization, 28, 129–33, 256, The Ego and the Id (Freud), 114 265, 272 Eichenbaum, Boris, 189–92 form and structure, 178 “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Forster, E.M., 26 Napoleon Bonaparte” (Marx), Foucault, Michel, 4, 94, 212, 216, 80–93, 220 224, 268; heterotopia, 268;

Index 343

“Nietzsche, Genealogy, and Genesis, the Book of, 167 History,” 94 Genette, Gérard, 5, 8–9, 13, 48, 53, 84, Frankenstein; or, The Modern 92, 100–1, 110, 117, 129, 190, 200, Prometheus (Shelley), 196 203, 213, 219, 223–4, 227, 234, Freeland, Cynthia, 24–46 239, 252–3, 256–89; anachrony, French Communist Party (PCF), 11, 92, 110, 264; analepsis, 11, 225–7, 231–2, 252, 280, 332 256–7, 264, 266, French Revolution (1789), 16, 57–60, 274, 281; diegetic levels, 100, 269; 78, 84 ellipsis, 265, 283; “Frontiers of French Revolution (1848), 81, 84 Narrative,” 279; iterative mode, Freud and Philosophy (Ricoeur), 78 256, 265, 272; metalepsis, 100–1, Freud, Sigmund, 53, 78, 106–19, 216–17, 256, 270; Narrative Discourse: An 222, 225, 239, 257, 261, 277, 284; Essay in Method, 8, 14, 219, 223, “Analysis Terminable and 227, 239, 256–89; Narrative Interminable,” 117; Beyond the Discourse Revisited, Pleasure Principle, 114; 130, 278; paralipsis, 256, 265, 272, Civilization and Its Discontents, 274; pseudo-iterative, 256; 110, 114; condensation, 109; prolepsis, 11, 45, 256–7, 264–6; death drive, 114, 116, 118; The pseudo-iterative, 256; singulative Ego and the Id, 114; The mode, 265, 272 Interpretation of Dreams, 107, Gigante, Denise, 310 109–10; latent & manifest, 111– Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 70, 140, 12, 114, 117, 257; Oedipal 159, 165, 178, 188, 287; The complex, 108–9; “On Narcissism: Metamorphosis of Plants, 182; The An Introduction,” 115, 118; Sorrows of Young Werther, 202; pleasure principle, 109, 118; Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, primary & secondary processes, 72, 75 109–11, 117; secondary & Goldﬁnger (Fleming), 240 primary processes, 109–11, 117; Goward, Barbara, 36 “Thoughts for the Times on War Gozzi, Carlo, 188 and Death,” 118; Three Essays on Grammaire du Décaméron the Theory of Sexuality, 107 (Todorov), 329 Friedman, Susan Stanford, 229 Gramsci, Antonio, 161 Fritzsche, Peter, 16 grand narratives, 68 “Frontiers of Narrative” (Genette), 279 Gravity’s Rainbow (Pynchon), 129 function (Propp), 182–3, 185, 196, 219, The Great Dictator (Chaplin), 86, 236–7, 245 Great Expectations (Dickens), 80, 129, 147, 268 Gabler, Hans Walter, 6 Greenblatt, Stephen, 173 Gallagher, Catherine, 173 Greer, Jane, 266 Gates, Henry Louis, 162; The Signifying Greimas, A.J., 5, 103, 180, 185, 187, Monkey: A Theory of Afro- 215, 220, 234, 245, 253, 259; deep American Literary structure, 103, 220, 228, 245, 253, Criticism, 162 288 genealogy, 94, 177 Grimm, the Brothers, 181

344 Index

Groundhog Day (Ramis), 273 Honig, Bonnie, 312 Grube, G.M.A., 33 Howells, William Dean, 123 guillotine, 59–60, 62 Hugo, Victor, 85 Huizinga, Johan, 99 Haitian Revolution, 58 A Hunt for Optimism (Shklovsky), 191 Hale, Dorothy, 133, 159, 320, 332; Husserl, Edmund, 216 Social Formalism: The Novel in Huston, Virginia, 266 Theory from Henry James to the Hyppolite, Jean, 216 Present, 133, 320, 323 Hyvärinen, Matti, 307 Halliwell, Stephen, 32–3, 310 Hamlet (Shakespeare), 29 ideology, 79–80 Hardy, Thomas, 129; The Return of the “Ideology and Ideological State Native, 129 Apparatuses” (Althusser), 91 Hartman, Geoffrey, 63 Ideology and Utopia (Mannheim), 16, 79 Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 3, Iliad (Homer), 29 14–15, 48–75, 81, 105, 107, incest, 43, 221 111–12, 137, 155, 176, 178, 181, The Interpretation of Dreams (Freud), 209, 216, 222–3, 225, 230–1, 252, 107, 109–10 255, 257, 280, 286, 288; Aesthetics, Introduction to the Reading of Hegel 137; Logic, 260; Master-Slave (Kojève), 64 (Lord-Bondsman) dialectic, 58, “An Introduction to the Structural 65–70, 83, 252; Phenomenology of Analysis of Narratives” (Barthes), Spirit, 53, 71, 79 185, 233–42, 245 Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History irony, 145, 150–1, 230, 240, 243 (Buck-Morss), 58 the is & the ought, 67, 74, 136, 222, Heidegger, Martin, 216 253, 277, 288 Herder, Johann Gottfried von, 48, iterative mode (Genette), 256, 265, 140, 181 272 Herman, David, 4, 13, 27, 49, 177–8, 182, 201, 236, 240, 262–3, Jahn, Manfred, 130, 306 306, 325; storyworld, 201 Jakobson, Roman, 21, 120, 179, 189, Herman, Luc and Bart Vervaeck, 10 194, 215, 217, 228, 234–5, 241; heterotopia (Foucault), 268 “Linguistics and Poetics,” 194; Hintikka, Jaako, 200 poetic function, 194–5, 228 Hippolyte, Jean, 72 James, Henry, 3, 99–100, 123–34, 147, The Historical Novel (Lukács), 16, 62, 198, 229–30, 239, 247, 257, 288; 139, 286 The Ambassadors, 124–5; ﬁcelle, History and Class Consciousness 124; point of view, 128; The (Lukács), 254 Portrait of a Lady, 134; The Hitchcock, Alfred, 168, 170, 241 Princess Casamassima, 128, 132; Holquist, Michael, 160, 179 Roderick Hudson, 127 Holquist, Michael and Vadim Jameson, Fredric, 62, 83, 87, 92, 112, Liapunov, 158 138, 191, 202, 205, 210, 214, Homer, 26, 135, 140, 146, 166–7, 173; 222, 286 Iliad, 29; Odyssey, 26, 29–30, 166, Jane Eyre (Brontë), 29, 100, 131, 170, 172 203

Index 345

JanMohamed, Abdul, 61; The Death- Lanser, Susan, 116, 162, 203; Fictions of Bound Subject: Richard Wright’s Authority: Women Writers and Archeology of Death,61 Narrative Voice,162,203 Jay, Martin, 72, 140–1 latent & manifest (Freud), 111–12, 114, Jockers, Matthew, 188 117, 257 jouissance (Barthes), 117 Lautréamont, Comte de, 225 Joyce, James, 6, 225; Finnegan’s Wake, legend & history (Auerbach), 174 233; The Portrait of the Artist as a Lerer, Seth, 174 Young Man, 147; Ulysses,6 Les Lettres nouvelles, 234 Les Liaisons dangereuses (Laclos), 202 Kafalenos, Emma, 10, 39 Lessing, Gotthold, 140 Kafka, Franz, 29, 57 Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 5, 84, 93, 180, Kagan, Matvei Isayevich, 158 190, 213–22, 227, 234, 245, 253, Kant, Immanuel, 54, 73, 75, 111, 137, 257, 259, 288; The Elementary 140, 153, 158, 164 Structures of Kinship, 216; The Karcevskij, Sergej Iosifovic, 179 Savage Mind, 216; “The Structural Kaufmann, Walter, 71 Study of Myth,” 218, 245; Tristes Keen, Suzanne, 5 Tropiques, 216 Kermode, Frank, 89 Levinas, Emmanuel, 64 King Lear (Shakespeare), 9 Lewis, David, 200 Kipling, Rudyard, 188 “Linguistics and Poetics” Klossowski, Pierre, 226 (Jakobson), 194 Knight’s Move (Shklovsky), 20, 191 literariness, 191, 193, 204–5, 230 Kofman, Sarah, 102–3; Nietzsche and Literature and Revolution Metaphor, 102 (Trotsky), 189 Kojève, Alexandre, 64, 216, 314; Logic (Hegel), 260 Introduction to the Reading of The Lorax (Dr. Seuss), 263 Hegel,64 Lord Jim (Conrad), 268 Kosman, Aryeh, 32 Lubbock, Percy, 319; The Craft of Koyre, Alexandre, 64 Fiction, 319 Kreiswirth, Martin, 3, 307 Lukács, Georg, 5, 13–14, 48, 53, 55, 62, Krieger, Murray, 310 70, 73, 84, 93, 100, 128, 134–53, Kripke, Saul, 200 155, 163–4, 185, 198, 204, 214, Kristeva, Julia, 55, 84, 117, 179, 223–4, 220, 229–30, 237, 239–40, 243, 224–33, 240–1, 243, 251, 255, 259, 247, 251–2, 254, 278, 280–1, 277, 288 287, 319; entertainment novel, 145, 151–2; The Historical Novel, La Jalousie (Robbe-Grillet), 7 16, 62, 139, 286; History and Class La Nouvelle Critique, 226 Consciousness, 254; “Reiﬁcation Lacan, Jacques, 64, 117, 212, 216, and the Consciousness of the 312 Proletariat,” 13; Soul and Form, Laclau, Ernesto, 161 139; The Theory of the Novel, Lange, Friedrich Albert, 102 134–53, 155, 163, 185, 280 langue & parole (Saussure), 207, 211, Lupton, Julia Reinhard, 108 217, 228, 235, 238, 244 Lyotard, Jean-François, 68

346 Index

MacGufﬁn (Hitchcock), 241 Miller, D.A., 26, 243, 248; Bringing Madame Bovary (Flaubert), 80 Out Roland Barthes, 248; magic circle, 99–100, 128, 138, Narrative and Its Discontents,26 239, 288 Miller, Gordon, 182 Mallarmé, Stéphane, 243 Miller, J. Hillis, 129 Mandel, Ernst, 286 Milton, John, 44; Paradise Lost,44 manifest & latent, 111–12, 114, 117 mimesis, 8, 25, 32, 94 Mannheim, Karl, 16, 62, 79, 319; Mimesis: The Representation of Reality Ideology and Utopia, 16, 79 in Western Literature (Auerbach), Marburg School, 158 165–75 Marcus, Sharon, 186–7 Mitchum, Robert, 265 Márkus, György, 142–3 “The Monk’s Prologue” (Chaucer), 48 Marx-Scouras, Danielle, 225 Montaigne, Michel de, 165 Marx, Karl, 14, 48, 53–4, 71, 78, 80–93, Moretti, Franco, 72, 75; The Way of the 105, 112–13, 144, 196, 203, 216–17, World: The Bildungsroman in 220, 222, 225, 257, 261, 288; base & European Culture,72 superstructure, 90, 109, 141, 196, morphology, 178, 181, 261 257, 261; Capital, 82; The Morphology of the Folktale (Propp), Communist Manifesto, 82; “The 180–8 Eighteenth Brumaire of Napoleon Morson, Gary Saul and Caryl Bonaparte,” 80–93, 220; “Preface Emerson, 156 to A Contribution to the Critique Moscow Linguistic Circle, 177, 189 of Political Economy,” 90 Mosse, Claude, 311 Master-Slave (Lord-Bondsman) motif, 189, 196, 198, 219, 236, 241 dialectic (Hegel), 58, 65–70, 83, 252 motivation, 198, 204, 213 masterplot, 39, 57, 108, 115, 152 Mumbo Jumbo (Reed), 162 May ‘68, 225, 227, 232–3, 252 Murder on the Orient Express Mayakovsky and His Circle (Christie), 264 (Shklovsky), 191 Murder, She Wrote, 264 melodrama, 133 Mythologies (Barthes), 234, 250, 254 Melville, Herman, 199 Melzer, Arthur, 19 Nairn, Ton, 319 Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 64 Napoleon, 59, 79 Metahistory: The Historical narratability, 26 Imagination in Nineteenth- Narrative and Its Discontents Century Europe (White), 86 (Miller), 26 The Metamorphosis of Plants narrative desire (Brooks), 69, 82 (Goethe), 182 Narrative Discourse: An Essay in metalepsis (Genette), 100–1, 256, 270 Method (Genette), 8, 14, 219, 223, “The Metropolis and Mental Life” 227, 239, 256–89 (Simmel), 141 Narrative Discourse Revisited Metz, Christian, 234 (Genette), 130, 278 Michelet, Jules, 86, 235 Narrative Fiction (Rimmon-Kenan), 10 Middlemarch (Eliot), 129, 264 narrativity, 27–8, 69, 269

Index 347

narratology, 19, 55, 67, 154, 185, Out of the Past (Tourneur), 215, 234 265–74 Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative (Bal), 130 Pamela or, Virtue Rewarded narrator, unreliable, 7 (Richardson), 202 “The Nature of Pronouns” Paradise Lost (Milton), 44 (Benveniste), 239 paralipsis (Genette), 256, 265, 272, 274 necessary anachronism, 287 Pater, Walter, 140 negation, 63 Père Goriot (Balzac), 80, 249 Nehamas, Alexander, 94 Phaedrus (Plato), 30 Neo-Kantianism, 55, 153, 158, 176, 178 Phelan, James, 7, 68, 131, 306 New Criticism, 189 Phelan, James & Mary Patricia New Criticism or New Imposture? Martin, 307 (Picard), 235 Phenomenology of Spirit (Hegel), 53, New Left Review, 226 71, 79 Nietzsche and Metaphor (Kofman), 102 philology, 95, 206 Nietzsche, Friedrich, 4, 48, 53, 78, “The Philosophy of Composition” 93–106, 112–13, 128, 137, 147, (Poe), 124 177, 220, 222, 224–5, 247, 271; Picard, Raymond, 235; New Criticism The Birth of Tragedy, 93; On the or New Imposture?, 235 Genealogy of Morals, 94; “On the Plato, 30–2, 45, 137; Phaedrus, 30; Use and Abuse of History for Republic,32 Life,” 104 pleasure principle (Freud), 109, 118 “Nietzsche, Genealogy, and History” The Pleasure of the Text (Barthes), 277 (Foucault), 94 Poe, Edgar Allan, 124; “The Nixon, Richard, 242 Philosophy of No Future: Queer Theory and the Composition,” 124 Death Drive (Edelman), 116 poetic function (Jakobson), 194–5, 228 Norton, Ed, 28 Poetics (Aristotle), 14, 24–46, 49, 52, Notes from Underground 54, 70, 114, 121, 123, 136 (Dostoevsky), 7 Poétique, 227, 280 point of view (James), 128 Odyssey (Homer), 26, 29–30, 166, Polti, George, 188; The Thirty-Six 170, 172 Dramatic Situations, 188 Oedipal complex (Freud), 108–9 Porter, James, 102 Oedipus Rex (Sophocles), 29, 39–40, The Portrait of a Lady (James), 134 50, 86, 108, 147, 221, 262 The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Old Testament, 173 Man (Joyce), 147 On the Genealogy of Morals possible-worlds theory, 200 (Nietzsche), 94 Potebnya, Alexander, 191 “On Narcissism: An Introduction” Prague Linguistic Circle, 189 (Freud), 115, 118 “Preface to A Contribution to the “On the Use and Abuse of History for Critique of Political Economy” Life” (Nietzsche), 104 (Marx), 90

348 Index

Pride and Prejudice (Austen), “Reiﬁcation and the Consciousness of 202–3, 269 the Proletariat” (Lukács), 13 primary & secondary processes Renger, Almut-Barbara, 41 (Freud), 109–11, 117 repression, 108 Prince, Gerald, 27, 306 Republic (Plato), 32 The Princess Casamassima (James), residual (Williams), 92, 110, 185, 203 128, 132 The Return of the Native (Hardy), 129 Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics The Rhetoric of Fiction (Booth), 131, 319 (Bakhtin), 153–4 Rhys, Jean, 29; Wide Sargasso Sea,29 prolepsis (Genette), 11, 45, 256–7, Richardson, Brian, 7–8, 10, 12, 195, 264–6 306–7, 314, 332 Propp, Vladimir, 179–88, 196, 206, Ricoeur, Paul, 31, 54, 63, 77–8; Freud 214, 217, 219–20, 227, 236, 242, and Philosophy, 78; school of 257, 259; function, 182–3, 185, reminiscence, 78; school of 196, 219, 236–7, 245; Morphology suspicion, 78, 80; Time and of the Folktale, 180–8 Narrative,54 Proust, Marcel, 8, 258, 280, 286; Àla riﬂe, Chekhov’s, 77 recherche du temps perdu, 8, 258, Rimmon-Kenan, Shlomith, 6, 10, 130, 274, 280 186, 306; Narrative Fiction,10 pseudo-iterative (Genette), 256 The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich Pyrhönen, Heta, 14 (Shirer), 9 Robbe-Grillet, Alain, 7, 225, 233, 252, Queneau, Raymond, 6, 64, 314; 277–8, 280; La Jalousie,7 Exercises in Style, 6, 314 Roberts, Deborah H., 34, 44 Robinson Crusoe (Defoe), 147 Rabaté, Jean-Michel, 161, 226, 280 Rockmore, Tom, 57 Rabelais and His World (Bakhtin), Roderick Hudson (James), 127 153, 155 Roeg, Nicolas, 11; Don’t Look Now,11 Rabelais, François, 159, 165 Rose, Gillian, 141 Rabinowitz, Peter, 52, 178, 306 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Racine, Jean, 48, 114, 235 Dead (Stoppard), 29 Ranke, Leopold von, 86 Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 48 readerly & writerly (Barthes), 231, 233, Roussel, Raymond, 225, 233 240, 243, 247, 254, 277–8 Royce, Josiah, 72 Reading for the Plot: Design and Russian Formalism, 8, 73, 84, 177, 180, Intention in Narrative 188–206, 213, 218, 223, 225, (Brooks), 115 227, 230–1, 234, 236, 243, realistic motivation (Tomashevsky), 257, 287–8 199, 204 Ryan, Marie-Laure, 5, 27, 68, 120, “The Reality Effect” (Barthes), 237 200–1, 262, 306–7 reduction, methodological, 180, 184, 206, 208, 211, 217, 227 S/Z: An Essay (Barthes), 14, 223, 233, Rée, Jonathan, 57, 71, 74 240, 242–56, 277, 286 Reed, Ishmael, 162 Sade, Marquis de, 225 referent (Saussure), 210 Said, Edward, 96, 166

Index 349

Sarrasine (Balzac), 242–3 sign (Saussure), 210–11, 214 Sartre, Jean-Paul, 64, 216, 226 signifier & signified (Saussure), 207, Saussure, Ferdinand de, 5, 177–80, 190, 210, 217, 235, 261 205–17, 226, 231, 234, 237, 244, The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of 246, 257, 259; Course in General Afro-American Literary Criticism Linguistics, 206; langue & parole, (Gates), 162 207, 211, 217, 228, 235, 238, 244; Silk, M.S, and J.P. Stern, 97, 101 sign, 210–11, 214; signifier & Simmel, Georg, 18, 140–1, 144, 151, signified, 207, 210, 217, 235, 261 178, 237; “The Metropolis and The Savage Mind (Lévi-Strauss), 216 Mental Life,” 141 Saving Private Ryan (Spielberg), 9 singulative mode (Genette), 265, 272 Schiller, Friedrich, 170 Smith, Barbara Herrnstein, 308 Schmidt, Dennis, 48, 76 Social Formalism: The Novel in Theory Schmidt, James, 60 from Henry James to the Present Scholes, Robert & Robert Kellogg, 128 (Hale), 133, 320, 323 school of reminiscence (Ricoeur), 78 Society for the Study of Poetic Language school of suspicion (Ricoeur), 78, 80 (Opojaz), 177, 189 Schwartzberg, Melissa, 38 Socrates, 30, 33 Scott, Sir Walter, 17, 58, 278, 286 Sollers, Phillipe, 224, 277, 280 Scott’s Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Sophocles, 107, 147; Antigone,50–1; Edinburgh (Duncan), 17 Oedipus Rex, 29, 39–40, 50, 86, Sechehaye, Albert, 206 108, 147, 221, 262 secondary & primary processes The Sorrows of Young Werther (Freud), 109–11, 117 (Goethe), 202 Sentimental Education (Flaubert), 149 Soul and Form (Lukács), 139 The Sentimental Education of the Novel Souriau, Etienne, 186 (Cohen), 89 Spencer, Herbert, 192 Seuffert, Bernard, 182 Sphinx, riddle of, 29, 40, 107, 221, The Seven Basic Plots (Booker), 188 41–4 Shakespeare, William, 9, 48; Hamlet, Spitzer, Leo, 96 29; King Lear,9 St. Augustine, 48 Shakespearean Tragedy (Bradley), 84 Stendhal, 90 Shaw, Harry, 131 Sternberg, Meir, 136, 169, 310, 320; Shell, Marc, 43 curiosity, 169; surprise, 168–9; Shelley, Mary, 196–7; Frankenstein; suspense, 136, 168–9 or, The Modern Prometheus, Sterne, Laurence, 195, 204, 271; 196 Tristram Shandy, 30, 147, 195 Shklovsky, Viktor, 20, 189, 191, 214, Stewart, Garrett, 60 228, 240–1, 244, 257; “Art as Stoppard, Tom, 29; Rosencrantz and Technique,” 191–2; Bowstring: On Guildenstern Are Dead,29 the Dissimilarity of the Similar, Story and Discourse: Narrative 191, 326; Energy of Delusion, 191; Structure in Fiction and Film A Hunt for Optimism, 191; (Chatman), 237 Knight’s Move, 20, 191; “The Storyteller” (Benjamin), 60 Mayakovsky and His Circle, 191; storyworld (Herman), 201 Theory of Prose, 191 Stranger than Fiction (Forster), 271

350 Index

Strauss, Leo, 19 Todorov, Tzvetan, 55, 154, “The Structural Study of Myth” 179–80, 190, 199, 224–5, 227, (Lévi-Strauss), 218, 245 234, 252, 257, 261, 280, structuralism, 177–8, 186, 213, 215–16, 312, 329; Grammaire du 234, 237 Décaméron, 329; Théorie de la surprise (Sternberg), 168–9 littérature, 225, 257 suspense, 136, 168–9 Tolstoy, Leo, 204 Sussman, Henry, 112 Tomashevsky, Boris, 189, 196–204, synchronic & diachronic, 50–1, 209, 214, 219, 236, 242; artistic 217, 249 motivation, 201, 204, 214; syntagmatic & paradigmatic, 235, 244 compositional motivation, 198, 204; motif, 189, 196, 198, 219, Taylor, Charles, 56–7, 236, 241; realistic motivation, 199, Tel Quel, 13, 65, 179, 190, 224, 261, 204 277, 280 Tönnies, Ferdinand, 140, 178; Tennyson, Alfred Lord, 30, Community and Civil Society, 140 Terror (French Revolution) 59–60, 76, Topics (Aristotle), 47 84, 105 Tourneur, Jacques, 265; Out of the Théorie de la littérature (Todorov), Past, 265–74 225, 257 Toward a Philosophy of the Act Theory of Literature (Wellek and (Bakhtin), 153 Warren), 189 Towards a “Natural” Narratology Theory of Prose (Shklovsky), 191 (Fludernik), 27 The Theory of the Novel (Lukács), tragedy, 24–46, 49–53, 113–14, 136 134–53, 155, 163, 185, 280 tragic chorus, 99, 101 The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations Tristes Tropiques (Lévi-Strauss), 216 (Polti), 188 Tristram Shandy (Sterne), 30, 147, 195 “Thoughts for the Times on War and Trotsky, Leon, 189; Literature and Death” (Freud), 118 Revolution, 189 Thoughts on the Imitation of Greek Art Turner, Frank, 140 in Painting and Sculpture Turner, James, 96 (Winckelmann), 139 Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality Ulysses (Joyce), 6 (Freud), 107 Uncle Tom’s Children (Wright), 61 Thucydides, 38 unconscious, 108 Tifft, Stephen, 85 USA Today, 315 Time and Narrative (Ricoeur), 54 “Utopia” (Barthes), 255 time of men & the time of the gods, 36, 39, 49, 51, 74, 87, 121, 136, 171, Valéry, Paul, 226 218, 221, 288 verisimilitude, 199 Time Travel: The Popular Philosophy of Vermeule, Blakey, 309 Narrative (Wittenberg), 7 Vernant, Jean-Pierre, 35, 39–40, Tobias, Ronald, 188 43, 46, 50–1 Tocqueville, Alexis de, 86 voice-over, 266

Index 351

Walsh, Richard, 10 willing suspension of disbelief Warhol, Andy, 29 (Coleridge), 199 Warhol, Robyn, 116 Winckelmann, Johann J., 139; Warren, Austin, 189; Theory of Thoughts on the Imitation of Literature, 189 Greek Art in Painting and The Way of the World: The Sculpture, 139 Bildungsroman in European Winnett, Susan, 115; “Coming Culture (Moretti), 72 Unstrung: Women, Men, Weber, Marianne, 151 Narrative, and the Principles of Weber, Max, 18, 140, 142, 151, 178, Pleasure,” 115 209, 237, 283 Wittenberg, David, 5, 7, 10; Time Weil, Eric, 64 Travel: The Popular Philosophy of Wellek, René, 189; Theory of Narrative,7 Literature, 189 Wolff, Michael, 315 White, Hayden, 51, 83, 86, 88; Woloch, Alex, 42, 124, 312 Metahistory: The Historical Woodruff, Paul, 310 Imagination in Nineteenth- Woolf, Virginia, 165 Century Europe,86 Wordsworth, William, 58 “The White Album” (Didion), 21 World War Z (Forster), 28 Wide Sargasso Sea (Rhys), 29 Wright, Richard, 61, 162; Uncle Tom’s Wilcken, Patrick, 216 Children,61 Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship Writing Degree Zero (Barthes), 234, (Goethe), 72, 75 243, 252, 277 Williams, Raymond, 34, 92, 203; “Base Wuthering Heights (Brontë), and Superstructure in Marxist 238 Cultural Theory,” 92; dominant, 92, 203; emergent, 92, 110, 203; Young, Julian, 49 residual, 92, 110, 185, 203