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PublisherFarrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-100374173400
ISBN-139780374173401
eBay Product ID (ePID)59088626
Product Key Features
Number of Pages288 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameHow Fiction Works
SubjectGeneral, Composition & Creative Writing
Publication Year2008
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines
AuthorJames Wood
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight0.4 Oz
Item Length7.8 in
Item Width5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2008-010290
Dewey Edition22
Reviews"Deservedly famous for [his] intellectual dazzle, literary acuteness and moral seriousness . . . Wood writes like a dream." -Daniel Mendelsohn,The New York Times Book Review "It is not enough to have one Wood. What is needed is a thicket-a forest-of Woods . . . [He proves] that superior criticism not only unifies and interprets a literary culture but has the power to imagine it into being." -Cynthia Ozick,Harper's Magazine, "Deservedly famous for [his] intellectual dazzle, literary acuteness and moral seriousness . . . Wood writes like a dream." -Daniel Mendelsohn, The New York Times Book Review "It is not enough to have one Wood. What is needed is a thicket-a forest-of Woods . . . [He proves] that superior criticism not only unifies and interprets a literary culture but has the power to imagine it into being." -Cynthia Ozick, Harper's Magazine
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal808.3
SynopsisWhat makes a story a story? What is style? What's the connection between realism and real life? These are some of the questions James Wood answers in "How Fiction Works," the first book-length essay by the preeminent critic of his generation. Ranging widely--from Homer to David Foster Wallace, from "What Maisie Knew "to "Make Way for Ducklings"--Wood takes the reader through the basic elements of the art, step by step. The result is nothing less than a philosophy of the novel--plainspoken, funny, blunt--in the traditions of E. M. Forster's "Aspects of the Novel "and Strunk and White's "The Elements of Style." It sums up two decades of insight with wit and concision. It will change the way you read., What makes a story a story? What is style? What's the connection between realism and real life? These are some of the questions James Wood answers in How Fiction Works , the first book-length essay by the preeminent critic of his generation. Ranging widely--from Homer to David Foster Wallace, from What Maisie Knew to Make Way for Ducklings --Wood takes the reader through the basic elements of the art, step by step.The result is nothing less than a philosophy of the novel--plainspoken, funny, blunt--in the traditions of E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Strunk and White's The Elements of Style . It sums up two decades of insight with wit and concision. It will change the way you read.
LC Classification NumberPN3331.W67 2008
