Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-208) and index.
Contents
Open form and the fable -- Aspects of the eighteenth-century rhetorical novel: Johnson's Rasselas and Voltaire's Candide -- Allegory versus fable: Golding's Lord of the flies -- Novel forms of thesis: Camus's The stranger -- Failure of completeness: Pynchon's V. -- Achievement of shape in the twentieth-century fable: Joseph Heller's Catch-22.
