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Provides a somewhat academic approach to a discussion of the main elements of fiction using examples (good and bad) from literature.
Publish Date
2008
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Subjects
Fiction, Authorship, Technique, History and criticism, Fiction, technique, New York Times reviewedPeople
E.M. Forster, Jane Austen, Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), Roland Barthes, Saul Bellow, Miguel de Cervantes, Anton Chekhov, Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881), Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880), Ford Madox Ford, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, James Joyce (1882-1941), D.H. Lawrence, Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1899-1977), Marcel Proust (1871-1922), William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Leo Tolstoy graf (1828-1910), John Updike (1932-2009), Virginia WoolfEdition | Availability |
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Table of Contents
Preface.
xi
A Note on Footnotes and Dates.
xv
Narrating.
3
Flaubert and Modern Narrative.
39
Flaubert and the Rise of the Flaneur.
47
Detail.
59
Character.
95
A Brief History of Consciousness.
139
Sympathy and Complexity.
169
Language.
181
Dialogue.
213
Truth, Convention, Realism.
223
Bibliography.
249
Index.
253
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