The art of fiction. ([2012?])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: David Lodge.
• Other Names: Lodge, David, 1935-
• Contents: Beginning (Jane Austen, Ford Madox Ford) -- The intrusive author (George Eliot, E.M. Forster) -- Suspense (Thomas Hardy) -- Teenage skaz (J.D. Salinger) -- The epistolary novel (Michael Frayn) -- Point of view (Henry James) -- Mystery (Rudyard KIpling) -- Names (David Lodge, Paul Auster) -- The stream of consciousness (Virginia Woolf) -- Interior monologue (James Joyce) -- Defamiliarization (Charlotte Brontë) -- The sense of place (Martin Amis) -- Lists (F. Scott Fitzgerald) -- Introducing a character (Christopher Isherwood) -- Surprise (William Makepeace Thackeray) -- Time-shift (Muriel Spark) -- The reader in the text (Laurence Sterne) -- Weather (Jane Austen, Charles Dickens) -- Repetition (Ernest Hemingway) -- Fancy prose (Vladimir Nabokov) -- Intertextuality (Joseph Conrad) -- The experimental novel (Henry Green) -- The comic novel (Kingsley Amis) -- Magic realism (Milan Kundera) -- Staying on the surface (Malcolm Bradbury). Showing and telling (Henry Fielding) -- Telling in different voices (Fay Weldon) -- A sense of the past (John Fowles) -- Imagining the future (George Orwell) -- Symbolism (D.H. Lawrence) -- Allegory (Samuel Butler) -- Epiphany (John Updike) -- Coincidence (Henry James) -- The unreliable narrator (Kazuo Ishiguro) -- The exotic (Graham Greene) -- Chapters etc. (Tobias Smollett, Laurence Sterne, Sir Walter Scott, George Eliot, James Joyce) -- The telephone (Evelyn Waugh) -- Surrealism (Leonora Carrington) -- Irony (Arnold Bennett) -- Motivation (George Eliot) -- Duration (Donald Barthelme) -- Implication (William Cooper) -- The title (George Gissing) -- Ideas (Anthony Burgess) -- The non-fiction novel (Thomas Carlyle) -- Metafiction (John Barth) -- The uncanny (Edgar Allan Poe) -- Narrative structure (Leonard Michaels) -- Aporia (Samuel Beckett) -- Ending (Jane Austen, William Golding).
• Publisher Details: London : Vintage Digital
• Publication Date: 2012
• Copyright Date: 1992
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 823.009; English fiction -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; American fiction -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; Criticism -- Terminology; Fiction -- Technique; Roman; Erzähltechnik; Aufsatzsammlung; USA; Englisch; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781448137794; 1448137799
• Related ISBNs: 9780099554240; 0099554240
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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