| Preface |
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1 Beginning (Jane Austen, Ford Madox Ford) |
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2 The Intrusive Author (George Eliot, E. M. Forster) |
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9 | (4) |
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3 Suspense (Thomas Hardy) |
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13 | (4) |
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4 Teenage Skaz (J. D. Salinger) |
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17 | (4) |
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5 The Epistolary Novel (Michael Frayn) |
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21 | (4) |
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6 Point of View (Henry James) |
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25 | (5) |
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7 Mystery (Rudyard Kipling) |
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30 | (5) |
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8 Names (David Lodge, Paul Auster) |
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35 | (6) |
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9 The Stream of Consciousness (Virginia Woolf) |
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41 | (5) |
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10 Interior Monologue (James Joyce) |
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46 | (6) |
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11 Defamiliarization (Charlotte Bronte) |
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52 | (4) |
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12 The Sense of Place (Martin Amis) |
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56 | (5) |
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13 Lists (F. Scott Fitzgerald) |
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61 | (5) |
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14 Introducing a Character (Christopher Isherwood) |
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66 | (4) |
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15 Surprise (William Makepeace Thackeray) |
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70 | (4) |
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16 Time-Shift (Muriel Spark) |
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74 | (6) |
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17 The Reader in the Text (Laurence Sterne) |
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80 | (4) |
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18 Weather {Jane Austen, Charles Dickens) |
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84 | (5) |
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19 Repetition (Ernest Hemingway) |
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89 | (5) |
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20 Fancy Prose (Vladimir Nabokov) |
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94 | (4) |
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21 Intertextuality (Joseph Conrad) |
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98 | (6) |
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22 The Experimental Novel (Henry Green) |
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104 | (5) |
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23 The Comic Novel (Kingsley Amis) |
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109 | (4) |
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24 Magic Realism (Milan Kundera) |
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113 | (4) |
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25 Staying on the Surface (Malcolm Bradbury) |
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117 | (4) |
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26 Showing and Telling (Henry Fielding) |
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121 | (4) |
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27 Telling in Different Voices (Fay Weldon) |
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125 | (5) |
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28 A Sense of the Past (John Fowles) |
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130 | (4) |
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29 Imagining the Future (George Orwell) |
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134 | (4) |
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30 Symbolism (D. H. Lawrence) |
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138 | (4) |
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31 Allegory (Samuel Butler) |
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142 | (4) |
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32 Epiphany (John Updike) |
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146 | (3) |
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33 Coincidence (Henry James) |
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149 | (5) |
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34 The Unreliable Narrator (Kazuo Ishiguro) |
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154 | (4) |
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35 The Exotic (Graham Greene) |
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158 | (4) |
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Chapters etc. (Tobias Smollett, Laurence Sterne, Sir Walter Scott, George Eliot, James Joyce) |
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162 | (7) |
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37 The Telephone (Evelyn Waugh) |
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169 | (5) |
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38 Surrealism (Leonora Carrington) |
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174 | (4) |
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39 Irony (Arnold Bennett) |
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178 | (4) |
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40 Motivation (George Eliot) |
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182 | (4) |
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41 Duration (Donald Barthelme) |
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186 | (3) |
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42 Implication (William Cooper) |
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189 | (4) |
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43 The Title (George Gissing) |
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193 | (4) |
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44 Ideas (Anthony Burgess) |
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197 | (4) |
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45 The Non-Fiction Novel (Thomas Carlyle) |
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201 | (5) |
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46 Metafiction (John Barth) |
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206 | (5) |
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47 The Uncanny (Edgar Allan Poe) |
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211 | (4) |
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48 Narrative Structure (Leonard Michaels) |
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215 | (4) |
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49 Aporia (Samuel Beckett) |
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219 | (4) |
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50 Ending (Jane Austen, William Golding) |
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223 | (8) |
| Bibliography of primary sources |
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231 | (6) |
| Index of Names |
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