Approaches to the novel; [electronic resource] materials for a poetics.

Includes bibliography.

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

Also issued online.