The Novel: An Introduction

Translator’s Note.

Acknowledgments.

1. Beginnings: What Do You Expect?

1 Beginning.

2 Sense and Meaning.

3 Rules of the Game.

4 Links and Connections.

5 I.

6 First Sentences: Enticements.

2. The Modern European Novel: Predecessors, Origins, Conventions, Sub-Genres.

1 Dangers and Allurements of Novel-Reading: What’s Novel about the Novel?

2 Fact and Fiction: No Man is an Island.

3 Fiction, Illusion, Realism.

4 Variety of Types: Triumph of Polyphony.

3. The Object of Every Analysis: The How of the What (Discourse and Story).

4. Time.

1 Narrative Time and Narrated Time.

2 Order.

3 Frequency.

4 Tense and Narrative.

5. Characters.

1 Character Conception.

2 Character Portrayal.

6. Teutonic Rosette or Gallic Taxonomy? Identifying the Narrative Situation.

1 Prologue.

2 Stanzel’s Typological Circle: A Preliminary Overview.

3 Splitting the In-dividual: The First-Person Narrative Situation.

4 The Impossibility of the Familiar: The Authorial Narrative Situation.

5 Abolishing Narrative in Narrative – the Illusion of Immediacy: The Figural Narrative Situation.

6 Genette’s Narrative Theory: The Basics.

7 Who Speaks? – Voice.

8 Who Perceives? – Focalization.

9 Internal – External: Advantage Genette?

10 Coda.

11 The Novel as Atonement.

7. Multiperspectivity, Unreliability, and the Impossibility of Editing Out the Gender Aspect.

1 Multiperspectivity.

2 Unreliable Narration.

3 The Narration’s Gender.

8. Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Symbolism and Space.

9. The End of the Novel and the Future of an Illusion.

1 Experience, Storytelling, (Hi)stories.

2 Meaning Orientation.

3 Novels: Allegories of Telling.

References.

Further Reading.

Index of Authors and Critics.