Odysseus' scar / Erich Auerbach. -- Mixed and uniform prose styles in the novel / Leonard Lutwack. -- James Joyce: comedian of the inventory / Hugh Kenner. -- The language of fiction / Margaret Mac Donald. -- The nature and modes of narrative fiction / Austin Warren. -- Specific continuous forms / Northrop Frye. -- Felix Krull: variations on picaresque / Robert B. Heilman. -- Robinson Crusoe, individualism and the novel / Ian Watt. -- The unpoetic compromise / G. Armour Craig. -- Thoughts on the novel: the individual and the group / Michel Butor. -- Old "values" and the new novel / Alain Robbe-Grillet. -- The end of the novel / Leslie Fiedler. -- Technique as discovery / Mark Schorer. Notes on writing a novel / Elizabeth Bowen. -- Point of view / Percy Lubbock. -- The uses of reliable commentary / Wayne Booth. -- Telling as showing: dramatized narrators, reliable and unreliable / Wayne Booth. -- The functions of stream of consciousness / Robert Humphrey. -- Plot in narrative / Robert Scholes and Robert Kellogg. -- The concept of plot and the plot of Tom Jones / R.S. Crane. -- Pattern and rhythm / E.M. Forster. -- The end / Frank Kermode. -- Character / David Daiches. -- Character and the context of things / W.H. Harvey. -- The stream of conscious / Alan Friedman.
