The Art of Time in Fiction - As Long As It Takes

Informationen zum Autor Joan Silber Klappentext Fiction imagines for us a stopping point from which life can be seen as intelligible!" asserts Joan Silber in "The Art of Time in Fiction." The end point of a story determines its meaning! and one of the main tasks a writer faces is to define the duration of a plot. Silber uses wide-ranging examples from F. Scott Fitzgerald! Chinua Achebe! and Arundhati Roy! among others! to illustrate five key ways in which time unfolds in fiction. In clear-eyed prose! Silber elucidates a tricky but vital aspect of the art of fiction.

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Joan Silber

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• Authors: Joan Silber
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 23.06.2009
• EAN: 9781555975302
• ISBN: 978-1-55597-530-2
• No. of pages: 120
• Series: Art of; The Art of
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Guides > Law, job, finance > Training, job, career