The subject in question : [electronic resource] the languages of theory and the strategies of fiction / David Carroll.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Between theory and fiction -- 1. The subject in question: phenomenology, structuralism, and the new novel -- 2. For example: psychoanalysis and fiction or the conflict of generation(s) -- 3. The (dis)placement of the eye ("I"): point of view, voice, and the forms of fiction -- 4. Representation or the end(s) of history: dialectics and fiction -- 5. The times of history and the orders of discourse -- 6. Diachrony and synchrony in fiction/history: reading Histoire -- 7. The dogmatism of form: theory and fiction as Bricolage.