An edition of How fiction works (2008)

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An edition of How fiction works (2008)

How fiction works

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Provides a somewhat academic approach to a discussion of the main elements of fiction using examples (good and bad) from literature.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Subjects

Fiction, Authorship, Technique, History and criticism, Fiction, technique, New York Times reviewed

People

E.M. Forster, Jane Austen, Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), Roland Barthes, Saul Bellow, Miguel de Cervantes, Anton Chekhov, Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881), Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880), Ford Madox Ford, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, James Joyce (1882-1941), D.H. Lawrence, Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1899-1977), Marcel Proust (1871-1922), William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Leo Tolstoy graf (1828-1910), John Updike (1932-2009), Virginia Woolf

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How fiction works
2009, Picador
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Table of Contents

Preface. xi
A Note on Footnotes and Dates. xv
Narrating. 3
Flaubert and Modern Narrative. 39
Flaubert and the Rise of the Flaneur. 47
Detail. 59
Character. 95
A Brief History of Consciousness. 139
Sympathy and Complexity. 169
Language. 181
Dialogue. 213
Truth, Convention, Realism. 223
Bibliography. 249
Index. 253

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Jonathan D. Lippincott

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Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xvi, 265p.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24328200M
Internet Archive
howfictionworks00wood_401
ISBN 10
0374173400
ISBN 13
9780374173401

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