Preface to the Third Edition vii
Introduction 1
1. The Art of Fiction / Henry James 13
2. Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown / Virginia Woolf 21
3. Flat and Round Characters / E. M. Forster 35
4. Epic and Novel / M. M. Bakhtin 43
5. Spatial Form in Modern Literature / Joseph Frank 61
6. Writing and the Novel / Roland Barthes 75
7. Distance and Point of View: An Essay in Classification / Wayne Booth 83
8. Marxist Aesthetics and Literary Realism / Georg Lukas 101
9. The Concept of Character in Fiction / William H. Gass 113
10. Time and Narrative in A la recherche du temps perdu / Gerard Genette 212
11. Discourse: Nonnarrated Stories / Seymour Chatman 139
12. Reading as Construction / Tzvetan Todorov 152
13. The Literature of Replenishment / John Barth 165
14. The Blackness of Blackness: A Critique on the Sign and the
> 15. Reading for the Plot / Peter Brooks 201
16. Breaking the Sentence; Breaking the Sequence / Rachel Blau Duplessis 221
17. The Documentary Novel and the Problem of Borders / Barbara Foley 239
18. Politics, Literary Form, and a Feminist Poetics of the Novel / Joanne S. Frye 255
19. “The Pastime of Past Time”: Fiction, History, Historiographical
> 20. “Building Up from Fragments”: The Oral Memory Process in Some Recent African-American Written Narratives /Helen Lock 297
21. Scheherazade’s Children: Magical Realism and Postmodern Fiction / Wendy B. Faris 311
22. The Textualization of the Reader in Magical Realist Fiction / Jon Thiem 339
23. Are Fictional Worlds Possible? / Ruth Ronen 351
24. Chronoschisms / Ursula K. Heise 361
25. Queering Narratology / Susan S. Lanser 387
26. A Brief Story of Postmodern Plot / Cathrine Burgass 399
27. On Voice / John Brenkman 411
28. What Interactive Narratives Do That Print Narratives Cannot / J. Yellowlees Douglas 443
29. A Media Migration: Toward a Potential Literature / Joseph Tabbi 471
Biographical Notes 491
Permissions 495
Index 499