Essentials of the Theory of Fiction Book

1	The art of fiction	13
2	Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown	21
3	Flat and round characters	35
4	Epic and novel	43
5	Spatial form in modern literature	61
6	Writing and the novel	75
7	Distance and point of view : an essay in classification	83
8	Marxist aesthetics and literary realism	101
9	The concept of character in fiction	113
10	Time and narrative in A la recherche du temps perdu	121
11	Discourse : nonnarrated stories	139
12	Reading as construction	151
13	The literature of replenishment	165
14	The blackness of blackness : a critique on the sign and the signifying monkey	177
15	Reading for the plot	201
16	Breaking the sentence; breaking the sequence	221
17	The documentary novel and the problem of borders	239
18	Politics, literary form, and a feminist poetics of the novel	255
19	"The pastime of past time" : fiction, history, historiographical metafiction	275
20	"Building up from fragments" : the oral memory process in some recent African-American written narratives	297
21	Scheherazade's children : magical realism and postmodern fiction	311
22	The textualization of the reader in magical realist fiction	339
23	Are fictional worlds possible?	351
24	Chronoschisms	361
25	Queering narratology	387
26	A brief story of postmodern plot	399
27	On voice	411
28	What interactive narratives do that print narratives cannot	443
29	A media migration : toward a potential literature	471