The Novel
- Murasaki Shikibu (978–1016?), from The Tale of Genji
- Jin Shengtan (1610–61), from his edition of Shuihu zhuan (Water Margin)
- Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), from What is Art?
- Henry James (1843-1916), from “The Art of Fiction”
- Tsubouchi Shōyō (1859–1935), from The Essence of the Novel (1885–86)
- Rubén Darío (1867-1916), from “La literatura en Centroamérica” and/or another on modernismo
- W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963), from “Criteria of Negro Art”
- Wang Guowei (1877–1927), from Honglou meng pinglun (A critique of Dream of the Red Chamber)
- Mikhail Bahktin (1895-1975), from “Epic and Novel: Toward a Methodology for the Study of the Novel”
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), “What is Literature?”
Steven J. Venturino
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