Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-242).
Introduction -- Narrative communication -- Narrative time and repetition -- Events, characters, and characterization -- The parable as narrative illustration: from the parable of the sower to Franz Kafka's The trial and Orson Welles's The trial -- James Joyce's 'The dead' and John Huston's The dead -- Joseph Conrad's Heart of darkness and Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse now -- Virginia Woolf's To the lighthouse and Colin Gregg's To the lighthouse