Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- Introduction -- PART ONE: HISTORY, FICTION, AND THE CLAIMS OF WRITING: THE AUTO/BIOGRAPHICAL MODE -- ONE. Between History and Fiction: On Dorrit Cohn's Poetics of Prose -- TWO. Fictionality in Historiography and the Novel -- THREE. Fictionality, Historicity, and Textual Authority: Pater, Woolf, Hildesheimer -- FOUR. Mocking a Mock-Biography: Steven Millhauser's Edwin Mullhouse and Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus -- FIVE. Habsburg Letters: The Disciplinary Dynamics of Epistolary Narrative in the Correspondence of Maria Theresa and Marie Antoinette -- SIX. Authenticity as Mask: Wolfgang Hildesheimer's Marbot -- PART TWO: THE SUBJECT IN QUESTION: THE NARRATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS -- SEVEN. Interpretive Strategies, Interior Monologues -- EIGHT. Consonant and Dissonant Closure in Death in Venice and The Dead -- NINE. Identity by Metaphors: A Portrait of the Artist and Tonio Kröger -- TEN. Patterns of Justification in Young Törless -- PART THREE: GENDER, DIFFERENCE, AND NARRATION -- ELEVEN. Crossing the Gender Wall: Narrative Strategies in GDR Fictions of Sexual Metamorphosis -- TWELVE. Feminist Intertextuality and the Laugh of the Mother: Leonora Carrington's Hearing Trumpet -- THIRTEEN. Telling Differences: Parents vs. Children in "The Juniper Tree" -- FOURTEEN. No No Nana: The Novel as Foreplay -- PART FOUR: THE DISCOURSE OF NARRATOLOGY -- FIFTEEN. Contingency -- SIXTEEN. A Narratological Exchange -- INDEX