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Cover Page -- Half-title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- On The Novel -- Part 1.1. A Struggle For Space -- From Oral to Written: An Anthropological Breakthrough in Storytelling -- The Control of the Imagination and the Novel -- Historiography and Fiction in Chinese Culture -- The Novel on Trial -- Part 1.2. Polygenesis -- The Ancient Greek Novel: A Single Model or a Plurality of Forms? -- Medieval French Romance -- The Novel in Premodern China -- Critical Apparatus: The Semantic Field of "Narrative" -- Midrash -- Mythos/Fabula -- Monogatari -- Xiaoshuo -- Qiṣṣa -- Romance -- Povest' -- Part 1.3. The European Acceleration -- The Short, Happy Life of the Novel in Spain -- Forms of Popular Narrative in France and England: 1700-1900 -- The Rise of Fictionality -- Serious Century -- The Ruse of the Russian Novel -- Part 1.4. The Circle Widens -- Critical Apparatus: The Market for Novels- Some Statistical Profiles -- Britain, 1750-1830 -- United States, 1780-1850 -- Italy, 1815-1870 -- Spain, 1843-1900 -- India, 1850-1900 -- Japan, 1850-1900 -- Nigeria, 1950-2000 -- The Sign of the Voice: Orality and Writing in the United States -- The Long Nineteenth Century of the Japanese Novel -- Epic and Novel in India -- The Novel of a Continent: Latin America -- The Extroverted African Novel -- Part 1.5. Toward World Literature -- The Novelists' International -- Fecundities of the Unexpected: Magical Realism, Narrative, and History -- Readings: Traditions in Contact -- Al-Sāq 'alā al-sāq fīm ā huwa al-Fāryāq (Aḥmad Fāris Shidyāq, Paris, 1855) -- Drifting Clouds (Futabatei Shimei, Japan, 1887-1889) -- A Carriage Affair (Recaizade Mahmut Ekrem, Turkey, 1896) -- The Heartless (Yi Kwangsu, Korea, 1917) -- Chaka (Thomas Mofolo, South Africa, 1925) -- The Blind Owl (Sadeq Hedayat, Iran, 1941) -- Readings: Americas.
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