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The Art of Perspective - Who Tells the Story

English · Paperback / Softback

Will be released 31.01.2016

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Informationen zum Autor Christopher Castellani Klappentext A writer may have a story to tell, a sense of plot, and strong characters, but for all of these to come together some key questions must be answered. What form should the narrator take? An omniscient, invisible force, or one--or more--of the characters? But in what voice, and from what vantage point? How to decide? Avoiding prescriptive instructions or arbitrary rules, Christopher Castellani brilliantly examines the various ways writers have solved the crucial point-of-view problem. By unpacking the narrative strategies at play in the work of writers as different as E. M. Forster, Grace Paley, and Tayeb Salih, among many others, he illustrates how the author's careful manipulation of distance between narrator and character drives the story. An insightful work by an award-winning novelist and the artistic director of GrubStreet, The Art of Perspective is a fascinating discussion on a subject of perpetual interest to any writer.

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Christopher Castellani

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Authors Christopher Castellani
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Release 31.01.2016, delayed
 
EAN 9781555977269
ISBN 978-1-55597-726-9
No. of pages 160
Series Art of
The Art of
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies

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