About fiction; reverent reflections on the nature of fiction with irreverent observations on writers, readers & other abuses.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York,
Harper & Row
[1975]
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| Edition: | [1st ed.]. |
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Table of Contents:
- What is fiction?
- What good is it?
- So what's it all about
- this fiction?
- Touching on a few of the fine points
- Fiction as truth maker and life enhancer
- The problem
- in so far as there is one
- On being true-to-life
- A triumph
- and its consequences
- Just imagine
- About making it new
- About the reading of fiction
- About the reader
- how writers provide their own predicament
- About the fly in the reader's ointment
- The ideal, built-in, nonexistent reader
- About the campus city
- a haven for writers, readers, and good fiction
- About the decline of fiction
- if there is one
- About voice
- or, the writer revealed in spite of himself
- A reader's sampler
- If fiction is so smart, why are we so stupid?