Cover
Title Page
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Part I: Openings
1. Starting the Analysis
2. Space and Time
Part 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
Part III: Narrative and Narrators
8. Narrative I
9. Narrative II
10. Narrators
Part 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
Part V: Endings
18. Endings
Checklist of Questions for the Analysis of a Passage
Appendix 1: Film and the Novel
Appendix 2: Stereotype and Cliché in the Novel
Notes
Works of Fiction Cited
Select Bibliography
Index