How to Read Novels Like a Professor
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Preface: Novel possibilities, or all animals aren't pigs? -- Introduction: Once upon a time : a short, chaotic, and entirely idiosyncratic history of the novel -- Pickup lines and open(ing) seductions or, why novels have first pages -- You can't breathe where the air is clear -- Who's in charge here? -- Never trust a narrator with a speaking part -- A still, small voice (or a great, galumphing one) -- Men (and women) made out of words, or, My pip ain't like your pip -- When very bad people happen to good novels -- Wrinkles in time, or Chapters just might matter -- Everywhere is just one place -- Clarissa's flowers -- Met-him-pike-hoses -- Life sentences -- Drowning in the stream of consciousness -- The light on Daisy's dock -- Fiction about fiction -- Source codes and recycle bins -- Interlude: Read with your ears -- Improbabilities : foundlings and magi, colonels and boy wizards -- What's the big idea--or even the small one? -- Who broke my novel? -- Untidy endings -- History in the novel/the novel in history -- Conspiracy theory -- Conclusion: The never-ending journey.
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I'm a sucker for this genre submitted by emaelshaikh on August 25, 2022, 12:54pm Models metacognition!
PUBLISHED
New York : Harper, c2008.
Year Published: 2008
Description: xviii, 312 p. ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780061340406
0061340405
SUBJECTS
Fiction -- History and criticism.
Books and reading.