Theory of the Novel A Historical Approach

Northrop Frye (1912-1991), a Canadian, is one of the most comprehensive and influential figures in Anglo-American literary criticism and theory of the twentieth century. E. D. Hirsch teaches in the Department of English at the University of Virginia. Claudio Guillen is professor emeritus in the Department of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. Jonathan Culler teaches in the Department of English at Cornell University. Marthe Robert (1914-1996), a well-known French intellectual, wrote extensively on Freud, Kafka, and the Jewish tradition, as well as translating a number of important German and Swiss authors. Increasingly published, translated, and studied during the last quarter of the twentieth century, Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) is a singular German critic of literature and history whose heterodox writings are fed by, among other sources, Jewish thought and Frankfurt School Marxism. The central figure in structural anthropology and perhaps the most important theorist and practitioner of structuralism, Claude Levi-Strauss is a French intellectual whose influence on the study of narrative has been pervasive. The Viennese founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) has shaped modern thought and culture in a profound and permanent way. Hungarian intellectual and activist Georg Lukacs (1885-1971), perhaps the most original and important Marxist theorist of the twentieth century, is also the central figure in Marxist aesthetics. Philosopher, literary theorist, and cultural critic, Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955) was an intellectual leader of the republican government before the Spanish Civil War and is arguably the most important Spanish thinker of the twentieth century. Shaped equally by Russian formalism and Russian Marxism, over the past several decades Mikhail M. Bakhtin's (1895-1975) writings in linguistics, literary theory, and literary history have emerged as centrally significant to modern culture. Ian Watt (1917-1999) taught English literature at Stanford University. Michael McKeon teaches English literature at Rutgers University. Benedict Anderson is professor of Government and Asian Studies at Cornell University. Nancy Armstrong teaches English and comparative literature at Brown University. Fredric Jameson teaches literature and literary theory at Duke University. Gillian Brown teaches American literature at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City. Dorrit Cohn is professor emeritus in the Departments of Germanic Languages and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. Ann Banfield teaches in the Department of English at the University of California, Berkeley. Amelie Oksenberg Rorty is professor of the history of ideas in the Department of Classical Studies at Brandeis University. Franco Moretti teaches English and comparative literature at Columbia University. Clifford Siskin teaches English literature at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. Rosalind Coward and John Ellis, formerly academics, currently work in journalism and the media in England. George Levine teaches English literature at Rutgers University. Michael Davitt Bell (1941-1997) taught American literature at Williams College. Henry James (1843-1916) is the most important American novelist writing in the transition between late-nineteenth-century realism and early Modernism. Keith Cohen teaches comparative literature at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Andre Bazin (1918-1958), film critic, theorist, and educator, taught at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Cinematographiques and was co-founder of Cahiers du Cinema. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is the most important English novelist of high Modernism. Joseph Frank is professor emeritus of comparative literature and Slavic language and literature at Princeton University and Stanford University. Alain Robbe-Grillet is the most important author and theorist of the nouveau roman. Linda Hutcheon teaches English and comparative literature at the University of Toronto. Doris Sommer is professor of Romance languages at Harvard University. George Yudice is professor of American Studies at New York University. Kwame Anthony Appiah is professor of Afro-American Studies at Harvard University. Kumkum Sangari is professor of English at the Indraprastha College for Women, Delhi University.McKeon, Michael is the author of 'Theory of the Novel A Historical Approach', published 2000 under ISBN 9780801863974 and ISBN 080186397X.