Introduction: Don Quixote as prototype -- The art of life: the comic epic poem in prose -- The sorrows of young Werther: the structure of Sturm und Drang -- A triad of images: nature as structure in Madame Bovary -- Spatial patterns in The brothers Karamazov -- Dostoevsky's Crime and punishment and Kafka's The trial -- The interplay of circular and spiral form in Mann's The magic mountain -- How the Vicociclometer works: the fiction of James Joyce -- Joycean structure in Jacob's room and Mrs. Dalloway -- The more or less inward turn of post-Renaissance fiction.