19. ‘‘The Pastime of Past Time’’: Fiction, History, Historiographical Metafiction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface to the Third Edition vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. The Art of Fiction 13
6. 2. Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown 21
7. 3. Flat and Round Characters 35
8. 4. Epic and Novel 43
9. 5. Spatial Form in Modern Literature 61
10. 6. Writing and the Novel 75
11. 7. Distance and Point of View: An Essay in Classification 83
12. 8. Marxist Aesthetics and Literary Realism 101
13. 9. The Concept of Character in Fiction 113
14. 10. Time and Narrative in A la recherche du temps perdu 121
15. 11. Discourse: Nonnarrated Stories 139
16. 12. Reading as Construction 151
17. 13. The Literature of Replenishment 165
18. 14. The Blackness of Blackness: A Critique on the Sign and the Signifying Monkey 177
19. 15. Reading for the Plot 201
20. 16. Breaking the Sentence; Breaking the Sequence 221
21. 17. The Documentary Novel and the Problem of Borders 239
22. 18. Politics, Literary Form, and a Feminist Poetics of the Novel 255
23. 19. ‘‘The Pastime of Past Time’’: Fiction, History, Historiographical Metafiction 275
24. 20. ‘‘Building Up from Fragments’’: The Oral Memory Process in Some Recent African-American Written Narratives 297
25. 21. Scheherazade’s Children: Magical Realism and Postmodern Fiction 311
26. 22. The Textualization of the Reader in Magical Realist Fiction 339
27. 23. Are Fictional Worlds Possible? 351
28. 24. Chronoschisms 361
29. 25. Queering Narratology 387
30. 26. A Brief Story of Postmodern Plot 399
31. 27. On Voice 411
32. 28. What Interactive Narratives Do That Print Narratives Cannot 443
33. 29. A Media Migration: Toward a Potential Literature 471
34. Biographical Notes 491
35. Permissions 495
36. Index 499