Limits of the Novel: Evolutions of a Form from Chaucer to Robbe-Grillet

346 pp. An analysis of the novel as a literary form, using several classic works as examples. CONTENTS: Introduction; 1. The Novel and the Reader; 2. Chaucer - Troilus and Criseyde; 3. Cervantes - Don Quixote; 4. Lafayette - La Princesse de Cleves; 5. Sterne - Tristram Shandy; 6. Kafka - The Trial; 7. Proust - Remembrance of Things Past; 8. Sartre - Nausea; 9. Joyce and Robbe-Grillet; 10. The Novel as Ritual: Defoe's Crusoe and Dostoevski's Idiot; Books Cited; Index.