Argues that contemporary critics force works of literature to fit their theories and examines the impact of Marxism, linguistics, psychoanalysis, and structuralism on literary ...

Genette uses Proust's Remembrance of Things Past as a work to identify and name the basic constituents and techniques of narrative. Genette illustrates the examples by ...

An eminent Jewish scholar examines the total body of texts, legends, and traditions referring to the Binding of Isaac, and provides the paradigm for showing how legend and ...

Includes the life and work of Henri Beyle Stendhal, a list of characters, a synopsis of the novel, chapter summaries and commentaries, an analysis of main characters, Stendhal ...