Perrine's Story and structure
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Perrine's Story and structure
Harcourt Brace College Publishers, c1998
9th ed
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Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Introducing students to the major elements of fiction writing this text helps to develop critical standards for judging literary works. It uses 41 short stories and three novellas by "classic" and contemporary practitioners to demonstrate techniques and suggest criteria for judgment. The book is organized by elements of fiction: plot; character; theme; point of view; and so on. It also includes an appendix to guide students through the thinking and structuring processes of writing clearly and persuasively about literature.
Table of Contents
- Escape and interpretation
- plot
- character
- theme
- point of view
- symbol and irony
- emotion and humour
- fantasy
- the scale of value
- stories for further reading
- three novellas
- Herman Melville - "Bartleby the Scrivener"
- Katherine Porter - "Noon Wine"
- Leo Tolstoy - "The Death of Ivan Ilych".
by "Nielsen BookData"
