Table Of Contents:
Acknowledgments vii
Preface to the Second Edition ix
Preface to the First Edition xi
Introduction 1(13)

The Art of Fiction 14(8)

Henry James

Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown 22(14)

Virginia Woolf

Flat and Round Characters 36(7)

E. M. Forster

Epic and Novel 43(20)

M. M. Bakhtin

Spatial Form in Modern Literature 63(14)

Joseph Frank

Manners, Morals, and the Novel 77(15)

Lionel Trilling

Writing and the Novel 92(8)

Roland Barthes

What Makes a Short Story Short? 100(16)

Norman Friedman

Distance and Point of View An Essay in Classification 116(18)

Wayne Booth

Marxist Aesthetics and Literary Realism 134(13)

Georg Lukacs

Plot in the Modern Novel 147(11)

J. Arthur Honeywell

The Concept of Point of View 158(14)

Mitchell A. Leaska

The Concept of Character in Fiction 172(9)

William H. Gass

Time and Narrative in A la recherche du temps perdu 181(19)

Gerard Genette

The Literary Motif A Definition and Evaluation 200(13)

William Freedman

Introduction to the Study of the Narratee 213(21)

Gerald Prince

Realism Reconsidered 234(12)

George Levine

Discourse Nonnarrated Stories 246(12)

Seymour Chatman

Reading as Construction 258(15)

Tzvetan Todorov

The Literature of Replenishment 273(14)

John Barth

Defining the Short Story Impressionism and Form 287(14)

Suzanne C. Ferguson

The Blackness of Blackness A Critique on the Sign and the Signifying Monkey 301(25)

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Reading for the Plot 326(22)

Peter Brooks

Mimesis and Diegesis in Modern Fiction 348(24)

David Lodge

Breaking the Sentence Breaking the Sequence 372(20)

Rachel Blau DuPlessis

The Documentary Novel and the Problem of Borders 392(17)

Barbara Foley

Reading Ourselves Toward a Feminist Theory of Reading 409(23)

Patrocinio P. Schweickart

Politics, Literary Form, and a Feminist Poetics of the Novel 432(21)

Joanne S. Fryye

Toward a Feminist Narratology 453(20)

Susan S. Lanser

``The Pastime of Past Time'' Fiction, History, Historiographical Metafication 473(24)

Linda Hutcheon
Index 497