The novel in our time / William Van O'Connor -- Technique as discovery / Mark Schorer -- Techniques of fiction / Allen Tate -- The witness of the notebooks / Joseph Warren Beach -- James Joyce: the artist as exile / David Daiches -- D.H. Lawrence's sensibility / Francis Fergusson -- Scott Fitzgerald: the authority of failure / William Troy -- Ernest Hemingway: the failure of sensibility / Ray B. West, Jr. -- The Brontës, or, Myth domesticated / Richard Chase -- Ulysses, order, and myth / T.S. Eliot -- William Faulkner / Robert Penn Warren -- Manner, morals, and the novel / Lionel Trilling -- The revival of E.M. Forster / E.K. Brown -- André Gide and the problem of form in the novel / Carlos Lynes, Jr. -- Aldous Huxley and the novel of ideas / Frederick J. Hoffman -- Tone in A la recherche du temps perdu / C.W.M. Johnson -- The turn of the screw as poem / Robert Bechtold Heilman -- For Virginia Woolf / Warren Beck -- The naturalism of Vandover and the Brute / Charles Child Walcutt -- The meaning of Robert Penn Warren's novels / Eric Bentley -- Graham Greene / Morton Dauwen Zabel -- A note on fiction / C.H. Rickword.