This list is still in flux and provisional. More to come…
- Georg Lukács, The Theory of the Novel (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1971), especially chapter four (“The Inner Form of the Novel”) and chapter five (“The Historico-philosophical Conditioning of the Novel and its Significance”)
- M. M. Bakhtin, “Epic and Novel.” In The Dialogic Imagination (eds. Holquist & Emerson), Univ. of Texas Press (1981; orig. 1941).
- Erik Hoel, “Fiction in the Age of Screens”
- Peter Shawn Taylor, “Books Just Keep Getting Longer”
- Nick Clark, “Novels ‘have been getting substantially longer over last two decades'”
- Sarah Shaffi, “What’s the perfect length for a book?”
- Richard Lea, “The big question: are books getting longer?”
- Georges Poulet, “Phenomenology of Reading”
- Rita Felski, Hooked: Art and Attachment (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020), especially chapter one (“On Being Attached”) and chapter two (“Art and Attunement”)
- Lindsay Thomas, “Modeling Long Novels: Network Analysis and A Brief History of Seven Killings.”
- Catherine Gallagher, “Formalism and Time”
- Natalie Jarvey, “Why Are Movies Sooooo Long? An Investigation”
- Constance Grady, You’re not imagining it — movies are getting longer”
- Sam Adams, “What the Debate Over Long Movies Gets Wrong”