Reading Novels

Index

293 Index absent narrators, 158 active voice. See verbs Adam Bede, 46–47 Adam, Jean-Michel, xii, 266n. 9 adjectives, 194–98 classifying and nonclassifying, 194–95 impressionist, 196–97 subjective and objective, 276n. 2 synesthesia, 197–98 types of, 194–97 adultery plot, 127 adventure novel, 124, 127–28 adverbial clauses, 274n. 7 adverbs, 50, 184, 194, 269n. 2 Alice in Wonderland, 24, 30 All the Year Round, 19 alliteration, 68, 230–31, 235, 236 Ambassadors, The, 230 American Pastoral, 67, 124, 152, 269n. 6 American Psycho, 70 Amossy, Ruth, 257, 258 Amsterdam, 61 analepsis, 51–53, 134, 139, 142 analysis, techniques of, 12, 249–51 anaphora, 228–30, 279n. 16 Anna Karenina, 127 anterior time, 184–85 antihyperbole. See litotes antiphrasis, 115, 210–12, 251 antiromance, 123–24 Apothéloz, Denis, 266n. 6, n. 7 apposition, 177–76 Arabian Nights, The, 152 Arcadia, 270n. 9 Aristotle on metaphor, 199, 200 on plot, 109, 123, 266n. 13, 270n. 2 on verbs, 183 Artamène ou le Grand Cyrus, 270n. 9 Artist of the Floating World, An, 32 artworks, literature as, 3–4 Aspern Papers, The, 150 Assommoir, L’, 68, 272n. 13 assonance, 231 asyndeton, 169 At Lady Molly’s, 265n. 28 Aunt’s Story, The, 197 Austen, Jane characters of, 78–80, 85 dialogue in, 88–90 discussed, ix, 49, 173–74 free indirect discourse in, 113 on endings, 242 marriage plots, 125–26 place names in, 37 quoted, 78–81, 211, 241, 270n. 14 Auster, Paul, 159–60 authorial narrator, 152–55, 160, 233, 245–46 autobiography characteristics of, 272n. 1 monologue and, 108–9 narrators and, 149–50 novels and, 18, 74, 263n. 5 personal pronouns and, 26 Avison, Charles, 62 Awkward Age, The, 16, 18, 141 reading novels 294 “Baa Baa, Black Sheep,” 36 Back, 120–21 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 179, 212 Bal, Mieke, xii, 9, 58, 115, 265n. 8 Balzac, Honoré de, 153 Banfield, Ann, xii, 102, 115, 155 Banville, John, 30, 166, 203 Barnaby Rudge, 43 Barnes, Julian, 8, 18 Barry Lyndon, 253 Barthes, Roland, 45, 119, 270n. 6 Baudelaire, Charles, 197 Beckett, Samuel discussed, ix, 8, 69–70, 144, 168 names in, 36 quoted, 76, 109–10, 122, 166, 232, 236 beginnings. See incipits Behn, Aphra, 172, 187 Belinda, 104–5, 143, 269n. 2 Bellow, Saul, 128 Bennett, Arnold discussed, 68, 78, 227 quoted, 185, 220 Bersani, Leo, 279n. 11 Bildungsroman, 271n. 20 biography, 11–12, 22, 74 Blair, Hugh, 175 Blanchot, Maurice, 161–62 blazon, 76 Bleak House, 66, 158 blockbuster novels, 95 Boers, Frank, 206 Bogdanovich, Peter, 255 Book of Evidence, The, 166 Booker Prize, 263n. 5 Booth, Wayne C., 150, 272n. 2 Bordwell, David, xii, 120, 178, 225, 253 Borges, Jorge Luis, 9, 239 boundaries. See endings; transgressions Bowen, Elizabeth, 51, 126, 203, 235–36, 242 Bowles, Paul, 102 Braddon, M. E., 127, 136, 195, 197 Brontë, Charlotte, 18, 26–27, 137, 258 Brooke-Rose, Christine, 188 Brookner, Anita, 36, 126, 205–7, 259 Brooks, Cleanth, viii Brooks, Peter, 258 Brown, Charles Brockden, 191–92 Bunyan, John, 34–35, 124 Burke, Edmund, 62 Burn, The, 233 Butor, Michel, 33 Buyer’s Market, A, 192–93 Byatt, A. S., 178, 194 Caine, Hall, 167 Caleb Williams, 24 Calvino, Italo, 5, 221 Campion, Jane, 255 Carroll, Lewis, 24 Carver, Raymond, 172, 209, 214 Casino Royale, 85 Castle Rackrent, 40 Castle Richmond, 179–80, 201–2 Catcher in the Rye, The, 148–50 categories, in lists, 234 Cather, Willa, 151 Caught, 213 center of consciousness, 29–31, 157 Cervantes, Miguel de, 9 character, 71–86 as actants, 267n. 7 description and, 58, 78 formulaic, 78–80 as personalities, 81–82 categories of, 74–75 compared to real people, 71, 73 development of, 84–86 importance of, 55–56, 71 internal and external statements, 72–73 introduction of, 75–78 narrator’s distance from, 82–84, 148– 55, 157 realism in, 80–81 story operators, 72–73 types of (portrait), 75–77, 267n. 8 Chatman, Seymour on character, 71, 85 on focalizors, 265n. 8 on E. M. Forster, 268n. 12 on kernels, 270n. 6 on scene, 141 on verbs, 184–85 Chaucer, Geoffrey, 254 Chekhov, Anton, 194 chiasmus, 232 Chinese-box narrative structure, 132 Christmas Carol, A, 185–86 cinema. See film City of Glass, 159 index 295 Clarissa, 126 Clark, Stephen, 270n. 5 classics, “imitations” of, 253 classifying adjectives, 194–95 Clayhanger, 185 cliché, 246, 257–59 closure. See also endings effects...