The Art of Fiction (book) - Chapters

Chapters

1. Beginning Jane Austen Emma, Ford Madox Ford, " Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever and rich ..."
2. The Intrusive Author George Eliot, E. M. Forster
3. Suspense Thomas Hardy
4. Teenage Skaz J. D. Salinger
5. The Epistolary Novel Michael Frayn
6. Point of View Henry James
7. Mystery Rudyard Kipling
8. Names David Lodge, Paul Auster
9. The Stream of Consciousness Virginia Woolf
10. Interior Monologue James Joyce
11. Defamiliarisation Charlotte Brontë
12. The Sense of Place Martin Amis
13. Lists F. Scott Fitzgerald
14. Introducing a Character Christopher Isherwood
15. Surprise William Makepeace Thackeray
16. Time-Shift Muriel Spark
17. The Reader in the Text Laurence Sterne
18. Weather Jane Austen, Charles Dickens
19. Repetition Ernest Hemingway
20. Fancy Prose Vladimir Nabokov
21. Intertextuality Joseph Conrad
22. The Experimental Novel Henry Green
23. The Comic Novel Kingsley Amis
24. Magic Realism Milan Kundera
25. Staying on the Surface Malcolm Bradbury
26. Showing and Telling Henry Fielding
27. Telling in Different Voices Fay Weldon
28. A Sense of the Past John Fowles
29. Imagining the Future George Orwell
30. Symbolism D. H. Lawrence
31. Allegory Samuel Butler
32. Epiphany John Updike
33. Coincidence Henry James
34. The Unreliable Narrator Kazuo Ishiguro
35. The Exotic Graham Greene
36. Chapters etc. Tobias Smollett, Laurence Sterne, Sir Walter Scott, George Eliot, James Joyce
37. The Telephone Evelyn Waugh
38. Surrealism Leonora Carrington
39. Irony Arnold Bennett
40. Motivation George Eliot
41. Duration Donald Barthelme
42. Implication William Cooper
43. The Title George Gissing
44. Ideas Anthony Burgess
45. The Non-Fiction Novel Thomas Carlyle
46. Metafiction John Barth
47. The Uncanny Edgar Allan Poe
48. Narrative Structure Leonard Michaels
49. Aporia Samuel Beckett
50. Ending Jane Austen, William Golding