• Preface • The Art of Point of View • Booth, Joyce and Modernist Points of View • Some Rules for Reading Modernist Novels
• Some Fallacies of Intention / Modernist Characteristics
• The Role and Responsibility of the Modernist Reader
• Booth, Henry James and James Joyce: Distance/Ambiguity/Amorality
• The
Fallacy of the “Implied Author” • A Brief History of Point of View in the Brief History of the Novel • Chaucer’s Persona
• Eighteenth-Century Beginnings: Fielding and Richardson
• Nineteenth-Century English Forms: Dickens, Thackeray, Trollope, Brontë
• Nineteenth-Century American Forms: Hawthorne
• Straddling the Centuries: Henry James, Novelist and Theoretician
• Nineteenth-Century European Developments: Stendhal and Flaubert
• Anton Chekhov
• Modernist Intentions and Innovations: The Role of the Reader
• Learning What to Leave Out: Joyce’s Dubliners
• Hemingway as Model: In the Path of Dubliners • To Narrate, Narration, Narrator, Narratology • Some Narrators and Their Audiences: Browning, Rossetti, Dostoevsky, Camus
• Conrad and Marlow
• Oral Histories and Historians: Faulkner and Claude Simon • (Good Old Fashioned) Reliability and its Modernist Face
• (Potential) Unreliability: Dickens, Fowles, Gide, Ford, and Melville • John Fowles’ Daniel Martin
• André Gide’s The Counterfeiters
• Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier
• Reliability Beyond Narration: Melville and the Question of Confi dence • Narration within Narration: Social and Personal Histories • The Narrative Act in A la recherche du temps perdu
• Patrick Chamoiseau, Oiseau de Cham and Texaco • Narrative Invention: Critics Inventing Narrators • The Presumed “Narrator” in Joyce’s Telemachus”
• The Would-Be Narrator in Woolf ’s The Waves
• The Creation of Consciousness on the Page: Forms of Internal Monologue • Individual Consciousness: Mrs. Dalloway and Mr. Bloom on City Streets
• Stream of Consciousness/Monologue Intérieur (Ulysses)
• Universal Consciousness/The Unconscious (Finnegans Wake)
• Disintegration
• “An attack from the inside”: The Narrator Self-Destructs: Michel Butor • Omniscience • Late Modern Revivals
• Margaret Drabble
• At Play in the Fields of Omniscience: José Saramago
• At Play in the Fields of Omniscience (II): Carol Shields • The Subjective Uses of Narrative Objectivity • Modernist Objectivity
• Booth, Joyce and “Authorial Objectivity”
• Avoiding the Authorial Presence: Lawrence v. Kafka
• Modernist Narrative Survivals and Adaptations: From Kazantzakis to Bellow, Allegra Goodman, Don DeLillo • Metafiction as Narration • Comic Strips and Movies
• Detective Novels
• John Barth
• Philip Roth • Time as a Function of Point of View • From Victorian Chronology to the Time of the Mind
• Time for Mann/Biblical Time
• Joycean Time
• Proustean Time
• Time Passes: Faulkner, Simon, Woolf
• Time’s Calendar: Carlos Fuentes
• Notes • Index