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  title info:
    title: How fiction works
  name:
    name part: Wood, James
    name part: 1965-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    edition: Second Picador edition.
    edition: Tenth anniversary edition, updated and expanded.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxxi, 269 pages ; 18 cm.
  abstract: In the tradition of E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Milan Kundera's The Art of the Novel, How Fiction Works is a scintillating study of the magic of fiction, an analysis of its main elements and a celebration of its lasting power. Here one of the most prominent and stylish critics of our time looks into the machinery of storytelling to ask some fundamental questions. What do we mean when we say we "know" a fictional character? What constitutes a telling detail? When is a metaphor successful? Is Realism realistic? Why do some literary conventions become dated while others stay fresh? James Wood ranges widely, from Homer to Make Way for Ducklings, from the Bible to John le Carré, and his book is both a study of the techniques of fiction-making and an alternative history of the novel. Playful and profound, How Fiction Works will be enlightening to writers, readers and anyone else interested in what happens on the page.
  table of contents: Narrating -- Flaubert and modern narrative -- Flaubert and the rise of the Flaneur -- Detail -- Character -- A brief history of consciousness -- Form -- Sympathy and complexity -- Language -- Dialogue -- Truth, convention, realism.
  note: James Wood.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [251]-254) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Fiction
    topic: Authorship
  subject:
    topic: Fiction
    topic: Technique
  subject:
    topic: Fiction
    topic: History and criticism
  classification: PN3355 .W66 2018
  classification: 808.3
  identifier: 9781250183927
  identifier: 1250183928
  identifier: 9780312428471
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 170814
    record change date: 20190122115417.0
    record identifier: in00004002352