Time and the Novel

action artistic causality century characters chronological duration clock consciousness contemporary conventions convey critics Dalloway device digressions Dorothy Richardson dramatic effect epic episodes experience exposition expression feeling fictive present Ford Madox Ford Gertrude Stein Gide give happened Henry James hero historical human illusion imagination impression incident interest Joseph Conrad language limited literature living matter meaning medium method mind modern fiction narration narrative nature novelist omniscient author Orlando painting passage past pattern person novel plane play plot plot novel poetry Preface principle problems progression Proust psychological duration qu'il reader reading reality relation Richardson romances scene selection sense sequence significance Sterne story structure suspense technique temporal tense theme theory thing Thomas Mann thought time-arts time-shift tion Tom Jones Tristram Shandy truth Uncle Toby values Virginia Woolf Walter Shandy whole words writer Writer's present Wyndham Lewis