1. Bunyan's Pilgrim's progress: the doctrine of predestination and the shaping of the novel -- 2. Role of the reader in Fielding's Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones -- 3. Generic control of the esthetic response: an examination of Smollett's Humphry Clinker -- 4. Fiction -the filter of history: a study of Sir Walter Scott's Waverley -- 5. Reader as a component part of the realistic novel: esthetic effects in Thackeray's Vanity fair -- 6. Self-reduction -- 7. Doing things in style: an interpretation of "The oxen of the sun" in James Joyce's Ulysses -- 8. Patterns of communication in Joyce's Ulysses -- 9. Dialogue of the unspeakable: Ivy Compton-Burnett: A heritage and its history -- 10. When is the end no the end?: the idea of fiction in Beckett -- 11. Reading process: a phenomenological approach.
