How Fiction Works

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Call Number: 808.3 Wo, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Literary Arts / Writing & Publishing / Wood, James
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Malletts Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Nonfiction / Literary Arts / Writing & Publishing / Wood, James	4-week checkout	Due 05-15-2024
Traverwood Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Nonfiction / Literary Arts / Writing & Publishing / Wood, James	4-week checkout	Due 05-07-2024

First published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Narrating -- Flaubert and modern narrative -- Flaubert and the rise of the Flaneur -- Detail -- Character -- A brief history of consciousness -- Form -- Sympathy and complexity -- Language -- Dialogue -- Truth, convention, realism.
"In the tradition of E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Milan Kundera's The Art of the Novel, How Fiction Works is a scintillating study of the magic of fiction--an analysis of its main elements and a celebration of its lasting power. Here one of the most prominent and stylish critics of our time looks into the machinery of storytelling to ask some fundamental questions: What do we mean when we say we "know" a fictional character? What constitutes a telling detail? When is a metaphor successful? Is Realism realistic? Why do some literary conventions become dated while others stay fresh? James Wood ranges widely, from Homer to Make Way for Ducklings, from the Bible to John le Carré, and his book is both a study of the techniques of fiction-making and an alternative history of the novel. Playful and profound, How Fiction Works will be enlightening to writers, readers, and anyone else interested in what happens on the page"-- Book jacket.

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