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How fiction works / James Wood

By:

Wood, James, 1965-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2008.Edition: 1st edDescription: xvi, 265 p. ; 20 cmISBN:

9780374173401

Subject(s):

Fiction

DDC classification:

808.3 WOO

LOC classification:

PN3331 .W67 2008

Contents:

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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	808.3 WOO (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		038959

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.

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