Robert Scholes
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Robert E. Scholes is an American literary critic and theorist. He is known for his ideas on fabulation and metafiction.
He graduated from Yale University. Since 1970 he has been Professor at Brown University.
With Eric S. Rabkin, he published in 1977 the book Science Fiction: History, Science, Vision, which considerably influenced science fiction studies. In it, they attempt to explain the literary history of the genre, but also the sciences such as physics and astronomy.
Scholes holds honorary doctorates from Université Lumière Lyon 2, France, (1987) and SUNY Purchase (2003).
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Works
- Approaches to the Novel (1961) editor
- The Cornell Joyce Collection: A Catalogue (1961) editor
- The Fabulators (1967)
- Elements of Poetry (1969)
- Structuralism in Literature (1974)
- Structural Fabulation (1975)
- Fabulation and Metafiction (1979)
- Semiotics and Interpretation (1982)
- Textual Power (1985)
- Protocols of Reading (1989)
- In Search of James Joyce (1992)
- Elements of Fiction (1995) translation of a work first published in Japanese
- The Rise and Fall of English: Reconstructing English as a Discipline (1998)
- The Crafty Reader (2001)
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