Below you’ll find the full bibliographical info for works I mention in class:
Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism [1983]. London: Verso, 2006. (The nation as an imagined community; the nation and temporality; the nation and the novel)
Bernstein, Michael André. Foregone Conclusions: Against Apocalyptic History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. (“Backshadowing”)
Jameson, Fredric. The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1981. (“Symptomatic reading”)
Kermode, Frank. The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction [1966]. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. (Narrative closure)
Morson, Gary Saul. Narrative and Freedom: The Shadows of Time. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994. (“Backshadowing” and the Holocaust)
Said, Edward. Culture and Imperialism [1993]. New York: Vintage, 1994. (Austen and Empire: see pp. 80-97)
Williams, Raymond. Marxism and Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977. (“Structures of feeling”: see chapter 9)
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