Sir Walter Besant: “The Art of Fiction.”
Guy de Maupassant: Preface to “Pierre et Jean.”
William Dean Howells: “Criticism and Fiction.”
Robert Louis Stevenson: “The Lantern-Bearers.”
Brander Matthews: “Romance Against Romanticism,” in “The Historical Novel.”
CHAPTER III
THE NATURE OF NARRATIVE
Transition from Material to Method––The Four Methods of Discourse––1. Argumentation; 2. Exposition; 3. Description; 4. Narration, the Natural Mood of Fiction––Series and Succession––Life Is Chronological, Art Is Logical––The Narrative Sense––The Joy of Telling Tales––The Missing of This Joy––Developing the Sense of Narrative––The Meaning of the Word “Event”––How to Make Things Happen––The Narrative of Action––The Narrative of Character––Recapitulation.