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Who Says? - Mastering Point of View in Fiction

English · Paperback / Softback

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Who is telling the story to whom is the single most important question about any work of fiction; the answer is central to everything from style and tone to plot and pacing. Using hundreds of examples from Jane Austen to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Leo Tolstoy to Stephen King, novelist and longtime MFA professor Lisa Zeidner dives deep into the points of view we are most familiar with-first and third person-and moves beyond to second-person narration, frame tales, and even animal points of view. Engaging and accessible, Who Says? presents any practicing writer with a new system for choosing a point of view, experimenting with how it determines the narrative, and applying these ideas to revision.


About the author

Lisa Zeidner is the author of five novels and two books of poems. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Slate, GQ, and other publications. Zeidner teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Rutgers University and lives in New Jersey.

Summary

A thorough, illuminating, and entertaining guide to crafting point of view, a fiction writer’s most essential choice.

Product details

Authors Lisa Zeidner, Lisa (Rutgers University) Zeidner
Publisher WW Norton & Co
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 31.12.2022
 
EAN 9780393356113
ISBN 978-0-393-35611-3
No. of pages 288
Dimensions 210 mm x 140 mm x 23 mm
Weight 264 g
Subjects Guides > Law, job, finance > Training, job, career
Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies
Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Literature: general, reference works
Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories

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