Introduction Karen-Margrethe Simonsen, Marianne Ping Huang and Mads Rosendahl Thomsen Tradition and Modernity Jørn Erslev ANDERSEN: Busts of Silenus. Tradition and modernity in Rabelais and Jacobsen Kirsten PEDERSEN: How to Recognize a Novel When You See One. A Story about Tristram Shandy and Tristram Shandy’s Story Svend Erik LARSEN: “Throw Away Your Mind”. On Malcolm Lowry: Under the Volcano The Scandal of Realism Frits ANDERSEN: Corpus delicti. Zola’s Nana and André Breton’s Nadja: Siamese Twins in the Body of the Novel Jens Peter LUND NIELSEN: “The Book” versus the World in Marcel Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past Rolf HEITMANN: The Realism of a Heart. Resistance to Mimetic and Novelistic Representation in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Preface Søren POLD: Novel Media. On Typographical Consciousness and Marginal Realism in Nicholson Baker Identity, Dialogism, and Rhetoric Ole BIRKLUND ANDERSEN: The Letter-writing Culture of the 1700s and the Novel. The familiar letter and the epistolary novel, with special reference to Richardson’s Pamela Birgit ERIKSSON: Learning to Miscalculate – in Dialogues with Wilhelm Meister Marie LUND KLUJEFF: The Shades of Tone. The Narrator’s Tone of Voice in Henry James’ The Aspern Papers Spatiality and Visuality of the Tableau Frederik TYGSTRUP: The Textual Tableau. Models of Human Space in the Novel Karen-Margrethe SIMONSEN: The Poetic Microscope, Puzzleimages, Portraits and Other. (In)visibilities in Nathalie Sarraute’s Portrait of a Man Unknown Novel and Avantgarde Marianne PING HUANG: Montage and Modern Epic. Transmission between the Avant-garde and the Novel: Alfred Döblin to Günter Grass Steen KLITGAARD POULSEN: The Hoax that Joke Bilked. On the Connection Between Joyce’s Finnegans Wake and Freud’s Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious Mads ROSENDAHL THOMSEN: Systemic Reinventions of the Straight Story – the Novel after its Extremes Rasmus BLOK: I try to recall… A sense of narration in the digital novel – Afternoon, a story Abstracts