Wood, James, 1965- <br/><br/>
How fiction works 
/ James Wood 
 - 1st ed 
 - New York  : Farrar, Straus and Giroux  , 2008. 
 - xvi, 265 p.  ; 20 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-252) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780374173401 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2008010290 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Fiction
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN3331  / .W67 2008 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>808.3 WOO