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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 Wh... Full description
Table of Contents:
- Narrating
- Flaubert and modern narrative
- Flaubert and the rise of the flaneur
- Detail
- Character
- A brief history of consciousness
- sympathy and complexity
- Language
- Dialogue
- Truth, convention, realism.