Critical approaches to fiction / by Shiv K. Kumar and Keith McKean

The novel and the short story -retrospect and prospect Where do we go from here: the future of fiction -- Saul Bellow Chronology, character and the human condition: a reappraisal of the modern novel -- M. A. Goldberg Pilot Plot in the modern novel -- J. Arthur Honeywell On plot in modern fiction: Hardy, James and Conrad -- Walter O'Grady The structure of the modern short story -- A. L. Bader Character Characters in fiction -- Mary McCarthy Character and event in fiction -- Marvin Mudrick A critical approach to the short story -- Theodore A. Stroud Language Style and the twentieth-century novel -- Wendell V. Harris Style -- Richard M. Eastman Some remarks on fiction style, old and new -- Jaroslav Hornat Theme The novelist as moralist and the moralist as critic -- Derwent May Philosophy in the twentieth century American novel -- Gustav E. Mueller What is an initiation story -- Mordecai Marcus Setting The moment as a time-unit in fiction -- Giorgio Melchiori Endangering the reader's neck: Background description in the novel -- Bland D. S. Place in fiction -- Eudora Welty Modes of presentation Technique Technique as discovery -- Mark Schorer Fiction and the criticism of fiction -- Philip Rahv Point of View Point of view in the novel -- John E. Tilford Distance and point-of-view: an essay in classification -- Wayne C. Booth The novelist as Meddler -- George P. Elliott Stream of consciousness What is the stream of consciousness technique -- Lawrence Edward Bowling Symbolism Symbolism and the novel -- Ursula Brumm Irony Irony and fiction -- Andrew H. Wright