How fiction works / James Wood.
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TextPublication details: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.Edition: 1st edDescription: xvi, 265 p. ; 20 cmISBN: - 0374173400 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780374173401 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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Main Library | NonFiction | 808.3 W876 | Checked out | 06/08/2024 | 33111005012550 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.The result is nothing less than a philosophy of the novel--plainspoken, funny, blunt--in the traditions of E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Strunk and White's The Elements of Style . It sums up two decades of insight with wit and concision. It will change the way you read.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-252) and index.
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.
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.