How Fiction Works
Format: kindle
ASIN: B004EYSXTI
Publish date: December 7th 2010
Publisher: Vintage Digital
Pages no: 210
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Writing,
Essays,
Reference,
Humanities,
Language,
Literature,
Criticism,
Literary Criticism,
Books About Books,
Literary Fiction,
Art
I basically underlined this entire book.
This is a literary paean to the joys of good fiction. It is a deceptively simple title. It is really a guided tour of various works, and Wood delights in explaining what is extraordinary about devices or passages used in these stories. Sometimes he also takes pains to describe what doesn't work, be...
A worthwhile read simply for experiencing Wood’s enthusiasm for literature. However, this short book is less a “how-to-write” manual than it is an ode to literary realism.The examples Wood provides are analysed in a manner, which (for a change) leaves me hopeful that one day my writing could amount ...
It was thrilling, at first, to read contemporary criticism which addressed obviously important authors like DFW and Sebald (though they are dead too) in the same terms as Flaubert and James, explaining why what they do is good when it is and offering no excuses when it isn't. And it was exciting to ...
How Fiction Works is a fascinating theoretical book that should be read by anyone interesting in literature, linguistics and the foundations underlying creative writing itself. James Wood draws references from many different books and breaks everything down to varying levels of analysis to have a lo...
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