Preface to the Third Edition |
Introduction |
The Art of Fiction / Henry James1: |
Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown / Virginia Woolf2: |
Flat and Round Characters / E. M. Forster3: |
Epic and Novel / M. M. Bakhtin4: |
Spatial Form in Modern Literature / Joseph Frank5: |
Writing and the Novel / Roland Barthes6: |
Distance and Point of View: An Essay in Classification / Wayne Booth7: |
Marxist Aesthetics and Literary Realism / Georg Lukas8: |
The Concept of Character in Fiction / William H. Gass9: |
Time and Narrative in A la recherche du temps perdu / Gerard Genette10: |
Discourse: Nonnarrated Stories / Seymour Chatman11: |
Reading as Construction / Tzvetan Todorov12: |
The Literature of Replenishment / John Barth13: |
The Blackness of Blackness: A Critique on the Sign and the Signifying Monkey / Henry Louis Gates14: |
Reading for the Plot / Peter Brooks15: |
Breaking the Sentence Breaking the Sequence / Rachel Blau Duplessis16: |
The Documentary Novel and the Problem of Borders / Barbara Foley17: |
Politics, Literary Form, and a Feminist Poetics of the Novel / Joanne S. Frye18: |
"The Pastime of Past Time": Fiction, History, Historiographical Metafiction / Linda Hutcheon19: |
"Building Up from Fragments": The Oral Memory Process in Some Recent African-American Written Narratives / Helen Lock20: |
Scheherazade's Children: Magical Realism and Postmodern Fiction / Wendy B. Faris21: |
The Textualization of the Reader in Magical Realist Fiction / Jon Thiem22: |
Are Fictional Worlds Possible? / Ruth Ronen23: |
Chronoschisms / Ursula K. Heise24: |
Queering Narratology / Susan S. Lanser25: |
A Brief Story of Postmodern Plot / Cathrine Burgass26: |
On Voice / John Brenkman27: |
What Interactive Narratives Do That Print Narratives Cannot / J. Yellowlees Douglas28: |
A Media Migration: Toward a Potential Literature / Joseph Tabbi29: |
Biographical Notes |
Permissions |
Index |
Preface to the Third Edition |
Introduction |
The Art of Fiction / Henry James1: |
Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown / Virginia Woolf2: |
Flat and Round Characters / E. M. Forster3: |
Epic and Novel / M. M. Bakhtin4: |