Title: The twentieth century novel; studies in technique,
Authors: Beach, Joseph Warren, 1880-1957
Publisher: The Century Co.
Year: 1932
Subjects: Fiction History and criticism
Contents: Pt. I: Preliminaries -- Program -- Exit author -- Psychology: Fielding, Eliot -- Psychology: Meredith -- Psychology: Proust -- Philosophy: Hugo -- Philosophy: Wells -- Hors-d'Ceuvres: Barres, France -- horse-D'Ceuvres: Cabell -- Philosophy: Dostoevski -- Philosophy: Zola, Mann -- Pt. II:The Dramatic ideal -- Towawrd the well-made novel -- Dramatic present -- Dramatic present: Dostoevski -- Dramatic present: Thackeray, Tolstoy -- Subjective drama: James -- Point of view: James -- Point of view: James and others -- Point of view: James, Stendhal -- Pt. III: The Well-made novel -- Variations: Bennett -- Variations" Galsworthy -- Variations: Sigrid Undset -- The Unities -- Point of view: Hergesheimer -- The Well-made novel: Sedgwick, Wharton -- Pt. IV: Transition -- Critique of the well-made novel -- The Realist reaction: Dreiser -- The Modernists -- Impressionism: Conrad -- Impressionism: Lawrence -- imagism: Dorothy Richardson -- Pt.V: Expressionism -- post-impressionism: Joyce The Breadthwise cutting -- Discontinuity: Dos Passos Logic and life: Gide -- Counterpoint: Aldous Huxley -- Composit views -- Expressionism: Woolf, Frank -- Abstract composition: Dos Passos -- Abstract composition: Doblin -- Stream-of-consciousness -- The Cult of the simple -- Recapitulation.