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Information for A Presentation on Narrative

Link to presentation notes, a .doc file.

Schools of Literary Criticism:
All apologies as many of these links are from Wikipedia, but are still a helpful place to start. I've listed some of the major schools of thought Miller writes of, as well as some of the individuals he specifically mentions as associated with each school. These are in the order Miller presented.

Russian Formalist Theories of Narrative: Wikipedia.
Mikhail Bakhtin: Wikipedia. Mikhail Bakhtin: University of Colorado.
Dialogism : Wikipedia.
T.S. Eliot, "Tradition and the Individual Talent" : Bartleby.com, where the quote on Wikipedia under Dialogism, "... the past should be altered by the present as much as the present is directed by the past." is sourced.

New Criticism: Wikipedia.

The Chicago School: Wikipedia (includes neo-Aristotelian).
neo-Aristotelian: Washington State University, Richard Taflinger,
with an online essay, "Sitcom: What It Is, How It Works, a NeoAristotelian Analysis" focusing on "dramatic presentations," such as television.

Psychoanalytic Literary Theory : Wikipedia.

Phenomenology : Stanford University, from their philosophy dictionary,
"Phenomenology is the study of structures of consciousness as experienced from the first-person point of view."

Marxist Literary Criticism : A 1993 hyper-text database and site created for a class, 60A, at Lawrence University.