Reading Novels

Table of Contents

Contents Foreword vi Preface xi Introduction 1 Part I Openings 13 1 Starting the Analysis 15 2 Space and Time 39 Part II Description, Character, Dialogue, and Monologue 55 3 Description 57 4 Character and Character Portraits 71 5 Dialogue 87 6 Monologue and Stream of Consciousness 104 7 Free Indirect Discourse 111 Part III Narrative and Narrators 117 8 Narrative I 119 9 Narrative II 131 10 Narrators 148 Part IV The Language of the Text 161 11 Sentence Structure and Connection 165 12 Verbs: Tense, Time, and Voice 183 vi 13 Adjectives 194 14 Figures: Metaphor, Metonymy, Irony 199 15 Words and Meanings 213 16 Repetition and Figures of Construction 222 17 Lists 234 Part V Endings 239 18 Endings 241 Checklist of Questions for the Analysis of a Passage 249 Appendix 1. Film and the Novel 253 Appendix 2. Stereotype and Cliché in the Novel 257 Notes 261 Works of Fiction Cited 283 Select Bibliography 287 Index 293 ...