The art of creating fiction
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The art of creating fiction
Macmillan, 1991
1st ed
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Includes index
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ISBN 9780333490198
Description
The essays in this collection survey the work of some of the most important British and Irish novelists of today. They not only consider afresh the work of novelists who established their reputations before 1960, such as Doris Lessing and William Golding; they also discuss the work of more recent novelists, among them Kazuo Ishiguro, Angela Carter and Graham Swift. The contributors are drawn from various parts of the English-speaking world, and provide a variety of original perspectives on the novelists concerned.
Table of Contents
- Preface - Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Muriel Spark's Grammars of Assent
- J.Little - Rough Magic and Moral Toughness: Iris Murdoch's Fictional Universe
- J.Fletcher - Doris Lessing's Beautiful Impossible Blueprints
- J.Harris - The Expatriate Experience: the Novels of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and Paul Scott
- Y.Gooneratne - John Fowles and the Fiction of Freedom
- L.St John Butler - The Small Worlds of Malcolm Bradbury and David Lodge
- J.Acheson - Contemporary Irish Women Novelists
- J.Dunleavy & R.Lynch - The Historical Imagination in William Golding's Later Fiction
- J.Gindin - Patchwork and Patterns: The Condition of England in Margaret Drabble's Later Novels
- G.Cunningham - Essential Imaginings: the Novels of Angela Carter and Russell Hoban
- D.Punter - Redeeming the Time: the Novels of John McGahern and John Banville
- T.Brown - 'Unconfessed Confessions': the Narrators of Graham Swift and Julian Barnes
- D.L.Higdon - The New Internationalism: Shiva Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Buchi Emecheta, Timothy Mo and Kazuo Ishiguro
- B.King - Index
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: hard ISBN 9780333536780
Description
Anyone wishing to write short stories and novels will learn from The Art of Creating Fiction how some eminent writers, such as William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf, created their art. By giving the new writer an understanding of fiction as it has been produced by the great novelists, The Art of Creating Fiction serves a double purpose: it is an implicit manual on how to write fiction and at the same time a work that provokes, challenges and inspires the new writer to cultivate an ambition for greatness.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements - Preface - PART 1: THEORY - The Inescapable Lesson of the Master - Things That Appear - A Special Language - The Human Experience - PART 2: PRACTICE - Towards Perfection - Imperfection - Perfection - PART 3: CODA - Answers to Your Questions - Index
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