William Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale. The Arden Shakespeare, 2010.
Charlotte Lennox, The Female Quixote. Oxford Classics, 2008.
Stendhal, Le rouge et le noir. Livres de Poche. / The Red and the Black. Transl. Catherine Slater. Oxford World Classics, 2007.
Andrei Bely. Petersburg. Penguin Classics, 2011.
Hilary Mantel. A Place of Greater Safety. Fourth Estate, 2010.
Theoretical readings will be provided through Fronter:
Stephen Halliwell, "Mimesis and the History of Aesthetics" in The Aesthetics of Mimesis: Ancient Texts and Modern Problems pp. 1-33. (33pp)
Erich Auerbach, Mimesis (chapter 18: Im Hôtel de la Mole) pp. 422-459. (37pp.)
Rene Girard, Deceit, Desire and the Novel (ch. 5 pp. 113-138) (25pp.)
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy (pp. 25-42) (18pp.)
Mikhail Bakhtin, “Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel” (pp. 167-206) (pp. 40pp.)
Paul Ricoeur, Time and Narrative I (ch 3 “Threefold Mimesis”) (pp. 52-87) (pp. 35pp.)
Charlotte Lennox, “Observations […] on The Winter’s Tale” Shakespeare Illustrated pp.71-97 (17pp.)
Gerard Genette, "Vraisemblance and Motivation" Narrative 9.3 (2001): 239-258. (29pp.)
Dorrit Cohn, "Signposts of Fictionality" Poetics Today 11.4 (1990): 775-804. (30pp.)
Choderlos de Laclos, Prefaces to Les liaisons dangereuses (7pp.)
Bertold Brecht, “Das epische Theater”, pp. 51-64 (14pp.)
Catherine Gallagher, Nobody's Story (ch. “Nobody’s Credit” pp. 157-174) (18pp.)