14.1 Criticism, narratology and theory
- Auerbach, Erich. Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature. Translated by Willard R. Trask. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1953. [German original 1946.]
- Bachelard, Gaston. The Poetics of Space. Translated by Maria Jolas. Boston: Beacon Press, 1964. [French original 1958.]
- Barthes, Roland. “The Reality Effect.” In The Rustle of Language, translated by Richard Howard, 141–148. Oxford: Blackwell, 1986. [French original 1968.]
- Barthes, Roland. S/Z. Translated by Richard Miller. New York: Hill and Wang, 1974. [French original 1970.]
- Barthes, Roland. Elements of Semiology. Translated by Annette Lavers and Colin Smith. London: Jonathan Cape, 1967. [French original 1964.]
- Eliot, T. S. “Hamlet and His Problems.” In The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism. London: Methuen, 1920.
- Genette, Gérard. Figures II. Paris: Seuil, 1969. [Contains “Frontières du récit”; translated as “Boundaries of Narrative”, New Literary History 8, no. 1 (1976).]
- Genette, Gérard. Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method. Translated by Jane E. Lewin. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1980. [French original 1972.]
- Hamon, Philippe. Introduction à l’analyse du descriptif. Paris: Hachette, 1981.
- Jakobson, Roman. “Two Aspects of Language and Two Types of Aphasic Disturbances.” In Fundamentals of Language, by Roman Jakobson and Morris Halle. The Hague: Mouton, 1956.
- Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim. Laocoön: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry. 1766.
- Lukács, Georg. “Narrate or Describe?” In Writer and Critic and Other Essays, translated and edited by Arthur Kahn. London: Merlin Press, 1970. [German original 1936.]
- Rabinowitz, Peter J. Before Reading: Narrative Conventions and the Politics of Interpretation. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.
- Ruskin, John. “Of the Pathetic Fallacy.” In Modern Painters, vol. 3. London: Smith, Elder, 1856.
- Schor, Naomi. Reading in Detail: Aesthetics and the Feminine. New York: Methuen, 1987.
- Shklovsky, Viktor. “Art as Device” [“Art as Technique”]. In Russian Formalist Criticism: Four Essays, translated by Lee T. Lemon and Marion J. Reis. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1965. [Russian original 1917.]
- Spiegel, Alan. Fiction and the Camera Eye: Visual Consciousness in Film and the Modern Novel. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1976.
- Watt, Ian. The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding. London: Chatto & Windus, 1957.
- Wood, James. How Fiction Works. London: Jonathan Cape, 2008.
14.2 Cognitive and empirical studies of reading
- Scarry, Elaine. Dreaming by the Book. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999.
- Zwaan, Rolf A., and Gabriel A. Radvansky. “Situation Models in Language Comprehension and Memory.” Psychological Bulletin 123, no. 2 (1998): 162–185.
- Emmott, Catherine. Narrative Comprehension: A Discourse Perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
- Green, Melanie C., and Timothy C. Brock. “The Role of Transportation in the Persuasiveness of Public Narratives.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 79, no. 5 (2000): 701–721.
14.3 Craft literature, used critically
- Burroway, Janet. Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft. Multiple editions.
- Gardner, John. The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983.
- Le Guin, Ursula K. Steering the Craft. Rev. ed. Boston: Mariner, 2015.
- Nabokov, Vladimir. Lectures on Literature. Edited by Fredson Bowers. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980.
- Robbe-Grillet, Alain. For a New Novel: Essays on Fiction. Translated by Richard Howard. New York: Grove Press, 1965. [French original 1963.]
14.4 Primary texts discussed
Passages are quoted briefly for the purposes of criticism and study. Where a work was not written in English, the translations consulted are named.
- Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. 1958.
- Balzac, Honoré de. Le Père Goriot. 1835.
- Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. 1847.
- Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights. 1847.
- Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. 1853; Great Expectations. 1861.
- Eliot, George. Middlemarch. 1872.
- Ellis, Bret Easton. American Psycho. 1991.
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. 1925.
- Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary. 1857. English versions consulted: trans. Eleanor Marx Aveling (1886); trans. Francis Steegmuller (1957); trans. Geoffrey Wall (1992); trans. Lydia Davis (2010).
- Flaubert, Gustave. “Un cœur simple”, in Trois contes. 1877. The barometer sentence is cited in Richard Howard’s rendering within his translation of Barthes’s “The Reality Effect”.
- Homer. Iliad; Odyssey.
- Hugo, Victor. Les Misérables. 1862.
- Joyce, James. Ulysses. 1922.
- Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick. 1851.
- Morrison, Toni. Beloved. 1987.
- Robbe-Grillet, Alain. La Jalousie. 1957.
- Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. 1939.
- Tolstoy, Leo. Kholstomer. 1886; War and Peace. 1869.
- Woolf, Virginia. Mrs Dalloway. 1925; To the Lighthouse. 1927.
14.5 Second-edition sources
Post-2000 and screen works added in the Core chapter, with the sources used to check what is said of them.
- Breaking Bad. AMC. Season 2, 2009: episodes “Seven Thirty-Seven”, “Down”, “Over” and “ABQ”, whose black-and-white cold opens show the pink teddy bear in colour; the titles spell “737 Down Over ABQ”.
- Herron, Mick. Slow Horses. London: Constable, 2010, and the Slough House series. The building on Aldersgate Street, “either broken or mended”.
- Ishiguro, Kazuo. Klara and the Sun. 2021. The Artificial Friend narrator, the Cootings Machine, and the partitioned visual field.
- Jemisin, N. K. The Fifth Season. New York: Orbit, 2015. Hugo Award for Best Novel, 2016; Appendix 2, a glossary of terms, at the back.
- Mantel, Hilary. Wolf Hall. 2009. The opening: the unravelling stitching of Walter’s boot.
- McGregor, Jon. Reservoir 13. London: 4th Estate, 2017. Costa Novel Award, 2017; thirteen chapters, one per year, each opening with the New Year fireworks.
- Parasite. Dir. Bong Joon-ho. 2019. Mr Park on the driver’s smell (“crosses the line”), and the garden party.