1.Nature and Forms of The Lyrical Novel

2.The Lyrical Tradition

3.Romantic Imagination: Hermann Hesse As A Lyrical Novelist

The Novel as a Disguised Lyric

The Symbolic Hero

The Allegorical Novel

Portrait of Time

Lyrical Objectives

4. Andre Gide: Lyrical Fiction and the Symbolist Method

Perception and Form: The Novelist in Spite of Himself

The Poet as Percipient

The Mirror of Narrative

The Protestant Confessional

The Inner Landscape

The Poet in Prose

5. Awareness and Fact: The Lyrical Vision Of Virginia Woolf

The Act of Consciousness and the Poet's Vision

Definitions of the Self

Window and Lighthouse

The Omniscient Perspective

Awareness and Form

6. The Lyrical Novel: Retrospect and Prognosis

Index