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Author:

Wood, James, 1965-

Title:

How fiction works / James Wood.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

FarrarStraus and Giroux,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

xvi, 265 p. ; 20 cm.

Subject:

Fiction.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [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.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

0374173400 (alk. paper)
9780374173401 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)213765645

LCCN:

2008010290

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