How fiction works
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How fiction works
Picador, [2018] , , c2018
10th anniversary edition, updated and expanded
- : paperback
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"August 2018"--Preface to tenth anniversary edition (page xxxi)
On title page verso: First published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. First Picador edition: August 2009. Second Picador edition: August 2018
Summary on USMARC: "The 10th anniversary edition of the canonical How Fiction Works will include a new introduction and writers Mr. Woods has discussed between 2006 and 2017. These include Alejandro Zambra, Lydia Davis, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Elena Ferrante, and Teju Cole. In turn, the expanded edition will become more international and diverse, featuring more women and non-white writers. An additional chapter will be added on form/plot, which was a topic not discussed in the original publication. Finally, in response to the book being seen as a manifesto for literary realism, James Wood will be modifying his arguments to explore--rather than defend--the question of realism in the novel"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography: pages [251]-254
Includes index
Contents of Works
- 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