How fiction works
Wood, James, 1965-
How fiction works / James Wood - 1st ed - New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2008. - xvi, 265 p. ; 20 cm.
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.
9780374173401
2008010290
Fiction
PN3331 / .W67 2008
808.3 WOO
How fiction works / James Wood - 1st ed - New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2008. - xvi, 265 p. ; 20 cm.
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.
9780374173401
2008010290
Fiction
PN3331 / .W67 2008
808.3 WOO
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