The Modernist Novel : A Critical Introduction Cover THE MODERNIST NOVEL Title Copyright Contents Illustrations Table Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction THE MASTER NARRATIVES CHAPTER 1 Character PRESENCE: CONSPICUOUS ABSENCE SUBSTANCE: CONCRETE NOTHINGNESS STRUCTURE: BLURRING AND FRAGMENTATION STABILITY: VOLATILE EGOS STATURE: A NEW KIND OF HERO PURPOSE: BILDUNGSROMAN TO KÜNSTLERROMAN CHAPTER 2 Event SCALE: RECALIBRATING THE SMALL AND THE LARGE CAUSALITY: CAUSAL SKEPTICISM MYTHIC PARALLEL SPATIAL PATTERNING CHANCE PLOT: ANTI NARRATIVE CHAPTER 3 Space TEXTURE: DYNAMIC VOIDS MENTAL SPACE: IMPRESSIONISM FREE INDIRECT DISCOURSE STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS URBAN SPACE: WANDERING ROCKS CHAPTER 4 Time ORIENTATION: VALORIZING THE PRESENT PACE: FASTER SLOWER MULTIPLE CONTINUITY: BROKEN WATCHES IN CONTINUOUS TIME ORDER: ACHRONY REPETITION TRAUMA EPIPHANY CHAPTER 5 Framework BEGINNING: IN THE MIDDLE OF THINGS ENDING: RESOUNDING IRRESOLUTION Personal narrative Courtship narrative CHAPTER 6 Text MECHANICS: COINED WORDS AND STYLIZED SENTENCES LANGUAGE: ILLUMINATING OPACITY STYLE: FEMININE ABSTRACT SURREAL COLLAGIST Female style Abstraction Surrealism Collage CHAPTER 7 Narrator VISION: SINGULAR SERIAL PARALLEL EMBEDDED VOICE: NONHUMAN SHIFTING MULTIPLE HETEROGLOSSIA KNOWLEDGE: CREATIVE UNCERTAINTY Conclusion Appendix: novels discussed in this book Notes INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1 CHARACTER CHAPTER 2 EVENT CHAPTER 3 SPACE CHAPTER 4 TIME CHAPTER 5 FRAMEWORK CHAPTER 6 TEXT CHAPTER 7 NARRATOR CONCLUSION Index. A comprehensive analysis of how formal innovations in the modernist novel (1900 40) captured the history of the period.