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How Fiction Works by Wood, James
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- Condition
- Acceptable
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- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
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- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
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- ISBN
- 9780374173401
- Subject Area
- Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines
- Publication Name
- How Fiction Works
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Item Length
- 7.8 in
- Subject
- General, Composition & Creative Writing
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1 in
- Item Weight
- 0.4 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.3 in
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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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. The result is nothing less than a philosophy of the novel--plainspoken, funny, blunt--in the traditions of E. M. Forster's "Aspects of the Novel "and Strunk and White's "The Elements of Style." It sums up two decades of insight with wit and concision. It will change the way you read.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374173400
ISBN-13
9780374173401
eBay Product ID (ePID)
59088626
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
How Fiction Works
Publication Year
2008
Subject
General, Composition & Creative Writing
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
0.4 Oz
Item Length
7.8 in
Item Width
5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2008-010290
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"Deservedly famous for [his] intellectual dazzle, literary acuteness and moral seriousness . . . Wood writes like a dream." -Daniel Mendelsohn,The New York Times Book Review "It is not enough to have one Wood. What is needed is a thicket-a forest-of Woods . . . [He proves] that superior criticism not only unifies and interprets a literary culture but has the power to imagine it into being." -Cynthia Ozick,Harper's Magazine, "Deservedly famous for [his] intellectual dazzle, literary acuteness and moral seriousness . . . Wood writes like a dream." -Daniel Mendelsohn, The New York Times Book Review "It is not enough to have one Wood. What is needed is a thicket-a forest-of Woods . . . [He proves] that superior criticism not only unifies and interprets a literary culture but has the power to imagine it into being." -Cynthia Ozick, Harper's Magazine
Illustrated
Yes
LeafCats
378
Dewey Decimal
808.3
Lc Classification Number
Pn3331.W67 2008
Copyright Date
2008
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