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" How fiction works / "
James Wood
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BL
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688599
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b510788
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| Main Entry
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Wood, James,1965-
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| Title & Author
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How fiction works /\ James Wood
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| Edition Statement
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1st ed
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,, 2008
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xvi, 265 p. ;; 20 cm
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| ISBN
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0374173400 (alk. paper)
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: 9780374173401 (alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-252) and index
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| Contents
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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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| Abstract
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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
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| Subject
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Fiction
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| Dewey Classification
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808.3
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| LC Classification
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PN3331.W67 2008
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