Approaches to the novel; materials for a poetics.
- San Francisco, Chandler Pub. Co. [1961]
- 314 p. 21 cm.
Includes bibliography.
Fortunata / Fictional modes / Specific continuous forms / Realism and the novel form / The craft of fiction : picture, drama, and point of view / Point of view in fiction : the development of a critical concept / The plot / The concept of plot / Novels of action and character / The nature and modes of narrative fiction / Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown / Manners, morals, and the novel / Technique as discovery / Mass society and post-modern fiction / The art of fiction / Erich Auerback -- Northrop Frye -- Northrop Frye -- Ian Watt -- Percy Lubbock -- Norman Friedman -- E. M. Forster -- R. S. Crane -- Edwin Muir -- Austin Warren -- Virginia Woolf -- Lionel Trilling -- Mark Schorer -- Irving Howe -- Henry James.