How Fiction Works

Informationen zum Autor James Wood has been a staff writer at the New Yorker since 2007. In 2009, he won the National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism. He was the chief literary critic at the Guardian from 1992 to 1995, and a book critic at the New Republic from 1995 to 2007. He has published a number of books with Cape, including How Fiction Works , which has been translated into thirteen languages. Klappentext A searching study of the main elements of fiction including narrative, detail, characterisation, dialogue, realism and style. From Homer to Beatrix Potter, this is both a study of the techniques of fiction-making and an alternative history of the novel. Reissued here as its influence continues. Zusammenfassung Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Milan Kundera's The Art of the Novel, How Fiction Works is a study of the main elements of fiction, such as narrative, detail, characterization, dialogue, realism, and style.

Product details

• Authors: James Wood
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.02.2009
• EAN: 9781845950934
• ISBN: 978-1-84595-093-4
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 13 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS
• Subjects: Fiction; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Literary essays, Literary theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers