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Acknowledgments Mark Spilka and Caroline McCracken-FlesherPreliminaries I. The New Series Poetics Panel Marianna Torgovnick OThePresent and Future States of Novel CriticismO: A Hopeful Overview MarkSpilka OStill Towards a Poetics of Fiction?O: No--And Then Again Yes Don H.Bialostosky BoothOs Rhetoric, BakhtinOs Dialogics and the Future of NovelCriticism Bernard Duyfhuizen Mimesis, Authority, and Belief in NarrativePoetics: Toward a Transmission Theory for a Poetics of Fiction RichardPearce OThe Present and Future States of Novel CriticismO: Our Two-HeadedProfession Daniel R. Schwarz The Case for a Humanistic Poetics II. FourPrecursors Roy Pascal Narrative Fictions and Reality: A Comment on FrankKermodeOs The Sense of an Ending Terrence Doody Don Quixote, Ulysses, andthe Idea of Realism Nancy Armstrong The Rise of Feminine Authority in theNovel Steven Cohan Figures beyond the Text: A Theory of Readable Characterin the Novel III. The Conference The Editors Why the Novel Matters: APostmodern Perplex Keynote Address David Lodge The Novel Now: Theories andPractices The Novel as Subjective Mode Leo Bersani FlaubertOsEncyclopedism Kaja Sivlerman Too Early/Too Late: Subjectivity and thePrimal Scene in Henry James Alan Singer The Voice of History/The Subject ofthe Novel The Novel as Ethical Paradigm Patricia Meyer Spacks The Novel asEthical Paradigm Robert Scholes The Novel as Ethical Paradigm? Daniel R.Schwarz The Ethics of Reading: The Case for Pluralistic and TransactionalReading The Novel as Cultural Discourse George Levine The Novel asScientific Discourse: The Example of Conrad Khachig Tololyan Discoursingwith Culture: The Novel as Interlocutor Charles Altieri Finnegans Wake asModernist Historiography The Novel as Therapeutic Discourse Joseph GoldThe Function of Fiction: A Biological Model Murray M. Schwartz BeyondFantasy: The Novel as Play Susan Rubin Suleiman Playing and ModernityDiscussion The Novel as Psychosocial Design Peter Brooks The Tale vs. TheNovel Robert Caserio Mobility and Masochism: Christine Brooke-Rose and J.G.Ballard Nancy K. Miller Feminist Writing and the History of the Novel TheNovel as Narrative Process Rachel Blau DuPlessis Feminist Narrative inVirginia Woolf Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth Conspicuous Construction: or,Kristeva, Nabokov, and the Anti-Realist Critique The Windup SessionMarianna Torgovnick Did We Meet Your Expectations? Discussion ContributorsIndex