How fiction works / James Wood.
Title:
How fiction works / James Wood.
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication:
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
Publication Date:
2008
ISBN:
9780374173401
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-252) and index.
Contents:
Narrating -- Flaubert and modern narrative -- Flaubert and the rise of the flaneur -- Detail -- Character -- A brief history of consciousness -- Sympathy and complexity -- Language -- Dialogue -- Truth, convention, realism.
Abstract:
What makes a story a story? What is style? What's the connection between realism and real life? These are some of the questions James Wood answers in How Fiction Works, the first book-length essay by the preeminent critic of his generation. Ranging widely--from Homer to David Foster Wallace, from What Maisie Knew to Make Way for Ducklings--Wood takes the reader through the basic elements of the art, step by step.--From publisher description.
Content Type:
text
Carrier Type:
volume
Language:
English
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