Studying the Novel
How do literary critics distinguish between ‘story’ and ‘plot’, between a symbol and an image, or between ‘tone’ and ‘mood’? How do we define ‘realism’, ‘modernism’, and ‘postmodernism’? What do narrative theorists mean by ‘frequency’ and ‘distance’? Studying the Novel provides answers to these...
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How do literary critics distinguish between ‘story’ and ‘plot’, between a symbol and an image, or between ‘tone’ and ‘mood’? How do we define ‘realism’, ‘modernism’, and ‘postmodernism’? What do narrative theorists mean by ‘frequency’ and ‘distance’? Studying the Novel provides answers to these questions and many others in a way that is readable and entertaining without being simplistic. This is the revised and updated sixth edition of Jeremy Hawthorn’s standard introduction to the novel.
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Format: Textbook
ISBN:
9780340985137 (0340985135)
ASIN: 9780340985137
Publish date: 15-09-2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Edition language: English
The writer is a complete and utter twat, but the information in the book is actually pretty good. I wouldn't exactly recommend it, but it's not a hard book to get through.
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