Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. On The Novel ix
4. 1.1. A STRUGGLE FOR SPACE
5. From Oral to Written: An Anthropological Breakthrough in Storytelling 1
6. The Control of the Imagination and the Novel 37
7. Historiography and Fiction in Chinese Culture 69
8. The Novel on Trial 94
9. 1.2. POLYGENESIS
10. The Ancient Greek Novel: A Single Model or a Plurality of Forms? 123
11. Medieval French Romance 156
12. The Novel in Premodern China 181
13. Critical Apparatus: The Semantic Field of “Narrative”
14. Midrash 215
15. Mythos/Fabula 225
16. Monogatari 241
17. Xiaoshuo 249
18. Qissa 262
19. Romance 269
20. Povest' 283
21. 1.3. THE EUROPEAN ACCELERATION
22. The Short, Happy Life of the Novel in Spain 289
23. Forms of Popular Narrative in France and England: 1700–1900 313
24. The Rise of Fictionality 336
25. Serious Century 364
26. The Ruse of the Russian Novel 401
27. 1.4. THE CIRCLE WIDENS
28. Critical Apparatus: The Market for Novels— Some Statistical Profiles
29. Britain 1750–1830 425
30. United States, 1780–1850 455
31. Italy, 1815–1870 466
32. Spain, 1843–1900 479
33. India, 1850–1900 495
34. Japan, 1850–1900 509
35. Nigeria, 1950–2000 521
36. 1.4. THE CIRCLE WIDENS
37. The Sign of the Voice: Orality and Writing in the United States 531
38. The Long Nineteenth Century of the Japanese Novel 553
39. Epic and Novel in India 596
40. The Novel of a Continent: Latin America 632
41. The Extroverted African Novel 667
42. 1.5. TOWARD WORLD LITERATURE
43. The Novelists’ International 701
44. Fecundities of the Unexpected: Magical Realism, Narrative, and History 726
45. Readings: Traditions in Contact
46. Al-Sāq 'alā al-sāq fīm ā huwa al-Fāryāq (Ah. mad Fāris Shidyāq, Paris, 1855) 757
47. Drifting Clouds (Futabatei Shimei, Japan, 1887–1889) 766
48. A Carriage Affair (Recaizade Mahmut Ekrem, Turkey, 1896) 775
49. The Heartless (Yi Kwangsu, Korea, 1917) 781
50. Chaka (Thomas Mofolo, South Africa, 1925) 786
51. The Blind Owl (Sadeq Hedayat, Iran, 1941) 794
52. Readings: Americas
53. Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe, United States, 1852) 803
54. Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas (J. M. Machado de Assis, Brazil, 1880) 816
55. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain, United States, 1884) 841
56. Pedro Páramo (Juan Rulfo, Mexico, 1955) 855
57. Grande Sertão: Veredas (Joāo Guimarāes Rosa, Brazil, 1956) 862
58. The Death of Artemio Cruz (Carlos Fuentes, Mexico, 1962) 870
59. Lone Sun (Daniel Maximin, Guadeloupe, 1981) 876
60. Beloved (Toni Morrison, United States, 1987) 886
61. Contributors 893
62. Author Index 897
63. Works Cited Index 907