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Informationen zum Autor CHARLES BAXTER is the author of ten books, including The Feast of Love , a finalist for the National Book Award, and Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction . He teaches at the University of Minnesota and lives in Minneapolis. Klappentext The Art Of series is a new series of brief books by contemporary writers on important craft issues. Each book investigates an element of the craft of fiction! creative nonfiction! or poetry by discussing works by authors past and present. The books in the Art Of series are not strictly manuals! but serve readers and writers by illuminating aspects of the craft of writing that people "think "they already know but don't "really "know. Fiction writer and essayist Charles Baxter's "The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot "discusses and illustrates the hidden subtextual overtones and undertones in fictional works haunted by the unspoken! the suppressed! and the secreted. Using an array of examples from Melville and Dostoyevsky to contemporary writers Paula Fox! Edward P. Jones! and Lorrie Moore! Baxter explains how fiction writers create those visible and invisible details! how what is displayed evokes what is not displayed.
