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Chapter 1 · The Purposes of a Scene

14. Sources Cited

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14.1 Poetics, criticism and narratology

  • Aristotle. Poetics. c. 335 BCE. Cited by chapter; available in translations by Malcolm Heath (Penguin, 1996) and Stephen Halliwell (Loeb, 1995).
  • Auerbach, Erich. Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature. Translated by Willard R. Trask. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1953. [German original 1946.]
  • Bal, Mieke. Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative. 4th ed. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017. [First edition 1985.]
  • Barthes, Roland. “Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narratives.” In Image–Music–Text, translated by Stephen Heath. London: Fontana, 1977. [French original 1966.]
  • Barthes, Roland. S/Z. Translated by Richard Miller. New York: Hill and Wang, 1974. [French original 1970.]
  • Barthes, Roland. “The Reality Effect.” In The Rustle of Language, translated by Richard Howard. Oxford: Blackwell, 1986. [French original 1968.]
  • Booth, Wayne C. The Rhetoric of Fiction. 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983. [First edition 1961.]
  • Chatman, Seymour. Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1978.
  • Forster, E. M. Aspects of the Novel. London: Edward Arnold, 1927.
  • Freytag, Gustav. Die Technik des Dramas. Leipzig, 1863. English as Freytag’s Technique of the Drama, translated by Elias J. MacEwan. Chicago, 1895.
  • Genette, Gérard. Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method. Translated by Jane E. Lewin. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1980. [French original 1972.]
  • James, Henry. The Art of the Novel: Critical Prefaces. Edited by R. P. Blackmur. New York: Scribner, 1934.
  • Lubbock, Percy. The Craft of Fiction. London: Jonathan Cape, 1921.
  • Prince, Gerald. “The Disnarrated.” Style 22, no. 1 (1988).
  • Rabinowitz, Peter J. Before Reading: Narrative Conventions and the Politics of Interpretation. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.
  • Sternberg, Meir. Expositional Modes and Temporal Ordering in Fiction. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978.

14.2 Cognitive and empirical studies of reading

  • Emmott, Catherine. Narrative Comprehension: A Discourse Perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
  • Speer, Nicole K., Jeffrey M. Zacks, and Jeremy R. Reynolds. “Human Brain Activity Time-Locked to Narrative Event Boundaries.” Psychological Science 18 (2007).
  • Zacks, Jeffrey M., Nicole K. Speer, Khena M. Swallow, Todd S. Braver, and Jeremy R. Reynolds. “Event Perception: A Mind-Brain Perspective.” Psychological Bulletin 133 (2007).
  • Zwaan, Rolf A., and Gabriel A. Radvansky. “Situation Models in Language Comprehension and Memory.” Psychological Bulletin 123, no. 2 (1998): 162–185.

14.3 Craft literature, used as documents of a practice

  • Bickham, Jack M. Scene & Structure. Cincinnati: Writer’s Digest Books, 1993.
  • McKee, Robert. Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting. New York: HarperCollins, 1997.
  • Swain, Dwight V. Techniques of the Selling Writer. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965.

14.4 Primary texts discussed

Scenes are described and briefly quoted for the purposes of criticism and study. Where a work was not written in English, the translations in common use are named in the relevant section.

  • Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. 1958.
  • Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. 1813.
  • Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. 1861.
  • Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment. 1866. Cited in Constance Garnett’s translation.
  • Dostoevsky, Fyodor. The Brothers Karamazov. 1880.
  • Eliot, George. Middlemarch. 1871–72.
  • Fielding, Henry. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. 1749.
  • Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. 1925.
  • Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary. 1857. English versions referred to: Eleanor Marx Aveling (1886); Francis Steegmuller (1957); Geoffrey Wall (1992); Lydia Davis (2010).
  • Hugo, Victor. Les Misérables. 1862.
  • James, Henry. The Portrait of a Lady. 1881; revised for the New York Edition, 1908.
  • Kafka, Franz. Der Process. 1925.
  • Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick. 1851.
  • Proust, Marcel. À la recherche du temps perdu. 1913–27.
  • Stoker, Bram. Dracula. 1897.
  • Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina. 1878. English versions referred to: Constance Garnett (1901); Louise and Aylmer Maude (1918); Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (2000); Rosamund Bartlett (2014); Marian Schwartz (2014).
  • Tolstoy, Leo. War and Peace. 1869; The Death of Ivan Ilyich. 1886.
  • Woolf, Virginia. Mrs Dalloway. 1925; To the Lighthouse. 1927.