Bibliograph

How fiction works, James Wood

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How fiction works, James Wood

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-252) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

How fiction works

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

213765645

Responsibility statement

James Wood

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

Table Of Contents

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

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