附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-292) and index.
pt. I. Openings -- 1. Starting the Analysis -- 2. Space and Time -- pt. II. Description, Character, Dialogue, and Monologue -- 3. Description -- 4. Character and Character Portraits -- 5. Dialogue -- 6. Monologue and Stream of Consciousness -- 7. Free Indirect Discourse -- pt. III. Narrative and Narrators -- 8. Narrative I -- 9. Narrative II -- 10. Narrators -- pt. IV. The Language of the Text -- 11. Sentence Structure and Connection -- 12. Verbs: Tense, Time, and Voice -- 13. Adjectives -- 14. Figures: Metaphor, Metonymy, Irony -- 15. Words and Meanings -- 16. Repetition and Figures of Construction -- 17. Lists -- pt. V. Endings -- 18. Endings -- Checklist of Questions for the Analysis of a Passage -- App. 1. Film and the Novel -- App. 2. Stereotype and Cliche in the Novel.
摘要:A piece of practical criticism, this text is a comprehensive "poetics" of a genre that has not attracted a great deal of attention. It is a reader's and student's guide that reaches beyond issues of individual texts and historical traditions to essentialfeatures of the form of the novel.
