The novelist at the crossroads, and other essays on fiction and criticism.

Includes bibliographical references.

The novelist at the crossroads.--Waiting for the end: current novel criticism.--Towards a poetics of fiction: an approach through language.--Choice and chance in literary composition: a self-analysis.--Graham Greene.--The uses and abuses of omniscience: method and meaning in Muriel Spark's The prime of Miss Jean Brodie.--The Chesterbelloc and the Jews.--Objections to William Burroughs.--Samuel Beckett: some ping understood.--Hemingway's clean, well-lighted, puzzling place.--Assessing H. G. Wells.--Utopia and criticism: the radical longing for Paradise.--Post-pill Paradise Lost: John Updike's Couples.--Crosscurrents in Modern English criticism.