The Art of Fiction

I read the The Art of Fiction by David Lodge in the early 90s. I was very much impressed by the book, which gave an insight into the world of literature. I did keep notes while reading the book and today I decided to put a list of books recommended by the author in various chapters.

The books include the following:

Defamiliarisation-Villete-Charlotte Bronte. For more on defamiliarisation, click here.
Interior Monologue-Ulysses-James Joyce
Intrusive Author-Adame Bede (George Orwell), Howard's End (E M Forster), As Good as Gold (Joseph Heller)
Suspense-A Pair of Blue Eyes (Thomas Hardy)
Skaz-The Catcher in the Rye-J D Salinger. Skaz
Epistolary Novels-Pamela and Clarissa (Samuel Richardson), Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen), The Trick of It (Michael Frayn)
Mystery Novels-Wilkie Collin's novels, Heart of Darkness(Joseph Conrad), The French Lieutenant's Woman (John Fowles) and Mrs. Bathurst (Rudyard Kipling).
Names-The author says that names are never neutral in fiction. To understand this, read How Far you can go and Nice Work by David Lodge.
The Stream of Consciousness-Phrase coined by William James, brother of Henry James. Read Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf).
Lists-Describes the purchase of luxury items by the heroines-by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Surprise-From Aristotle's "Peripetia". Read Vanity Fair by William Thackeray.
Time Shift-Slaughter House Five (Kurt Vonnegut), Time's Arrow (Martin Amis) and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Muriel Spark).
Repetition-Novels of D H Lawrence
Fancy Prose-Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov), Eupheus: The Anatomy of Wit (by John Lyly).
Intertextuality-Ulysses
The Experimental Novel-Term coined by Emile Zola. Read novels by Dorothy Richardson, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Loving (Henry Green).
Comic Novel-Lucky Jim (Kingsley Amis)
Magic Realism-Nights at the Circus (Angela Carter), Sexing the Cherry (Jeanette Winterson), The Book of Laughter (Milan Kundera).
Staying on the Surface-Robinson Crusoe, The History Man (Malcom Bradbury)
Showing and Telling-Joseph Andrews (Henry Fielding)
Telling in Different Voices-Female Friends (Fay Weldon). Also called "polyphony or alternatively dialogism" by Mikhail Bakhtin.
A sense of the Past- The French Lieutenant's Woman (John Fowles).
Imagining the Future-1984 (Orwell)
Symbolism-Women in Love (D H Lawrence)
Allegory-The Pilgrim's Progress (John Bunyan), Erewhon (Samuel Butler).
Epiphany-John Updike
Unreliable Narrative-The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro)
The Exotic-Novels of Graham Greene.
Surrealism-The Hearing Trumpet (Leonara Carrington)
Irony-The Old Wive's Tale (Arnold Benett)
Ideas-Novels of Robert Musil, Thomas Mann, Dostovesky, Sartre.
Metafiction- Tristram Shandy (Laurence Sterne), John Barth, Italo Calvino, Jorge Luis Borges.
Aporia-Samuel Beckett
The Ending-Pincher Martin by William Golding
Point of View-What Massie Knew (Henry James)