John Holloway has published widely on Marxist theory, on the Zapatista movement and on the new forms of anti-capitalist struggle. His book Change the World without Taking Power has been translated into eleven languages and has stirred an international debate, and Crack Capitalism is a renowned classic. He is currently Professor of Sociology in the Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades of the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla in Mexico.

In this 1979 book, Professor John Holloway presents a series of essays on classic authors as well as more recent English novelists.

Preface; 1. Supposition and supersession: a model of analysis for narrative structure; 2. Effectively complete enumeration in Phèdre; 3. Narrative process in Middlemarch; 4. Identity, inversion and density elements in narrative: three tales, by Chekhov, James and Lawrence; 5. Narrative structure and text structure: Isherwood's A Meeting by the River and Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; 6. Conclusion: structure and the critic's art; Appendix 1. Poetic analysis and the idea of the transformation-rule: some examples from Herbert, Wordsworth, Pope and Shakespeare; Appendix 2. Logic, feeling and structure in nineteenth-century political oratory: a primer of analysis.