Modern English Literature
by Cowley Julian /
2011 / English / PDF
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Michael McKeon’s imposing and important anthology Theory of the Novel is ‘an exercise in rebalancing’. Structuralist and post-structuralist narratologists are pushed to the margins and emphasis falls upon theorists who have sought to articulate ‘the coherence of the novel genre as a historical phenomenon’. The principal value of structuralism, for McKeon’s purposes, is its usefulness in dislodging partial, novel-centred views of narrative. This is exclusively a twentiethcentury collection, theorizing the novel as ‘a modern phenomenon’.
