Structure and theme--Don Quixote to James Joyce

(print) xi, 207 p. ; 25 cm.Foreword by Thomas P. Adler vii -- Preface ix -- Introduction. Don Quixote as Prototype 3 -- Ch. One. The Art of Life : The Comic Epic Poem in Prose 11 -- Ch. Two. The Sorrows of Young Werther : The Structure of Sturm und Drang 39 -- Ch. Three. A Triad of Images : Nature as Structure in Madame Bovary 61 -- Ch. Four. Spatial Patterns in The Brothers Karamazov 81 -- Ch. Five. Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment and Kafka's The Trial 103 -- Ch. Six. The Interplay of Circular and Spiral Form in Mann's The Magic Mountain 121 -- Ch. Seven. How the Vicociclometer Works : The Fiction of James Joyce 135 -- Ch. Eight. Joycean Structure in Jacob's Room and Mrs. Dalloway 169 -- Conclusion. The More or Less Inward Turn of Post-Renaissance Fiction 185 -- Bibliography 193 -- Index 20