Table of Contents: “…(Tobias Smollett, Laurence Sterne, Sir Walter Scott, George Eliot, James Joyce) -- The telephone (Evelyn Waugh) -- Surrealism (Leonora Carrington) -- Irony (Arnold Bennett) -- Motivation (George Eliot) -- Duration (Donald Barthelme) -- Implication (William Cooper) -- The title (George Gissing) -- Ideas (Anthony Burgess) -- The non-fiction novel (Thomas Carlyle) -- Metafiction (John Barth) -- The uncanny (Edgar Allan Poe) -- Narrative structure (Leonard Michaels) -- Aporia (Samuel Beckett) -- Ending (Jane Austen, William Golding)…”