For the past forty years The Nature of Narrative has been a seminal work for literary students, teachers, writers, and scholars. Countering the tendency to view the novel as the paradigm case of literary narrative, authors Robert Scholes and Robert Kellogg in the original edition offered a compelli[...]
A distinguished literary critic explores the linguistic background of structuralism, its historical connections to romanticism and Russian formalism, and the theory and practice of the leading contemporary structuralist literary critics. "Beautifully lucid, and at the same time intelligently critic[...]
Robert Scholes's now classic "Rise and Fall of English" was a stinging indictment of the discipline of English literature in the United States. In "English after the Fall," Scholes moves from identifying where the discipline has failed to providing concrete solutions that will help restore vitality [...]