| Title : | The art of fiction : illustrated from classic and modern texts | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | David Lodge, Author | | Publisher: | Secker & Warburg (London) | | Publication Date: | 1992 | | Pagination: | xi, 240 p. | | Size: | 23 cm | | ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-14-017492-2 | | General note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-235) and index | | Languages : | English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) | | Descriptors: | American fiction - History and criticism
English literature - history and criticism
| | Class number: | 823.009 | | Abstract: | "The art of fiction"- is considered under a wide range of headings such as the intrusive Author, suspense the Epistolary Novel, Time shift, Magic Realism and Symoblism, and each topic is illustrated by a passage or two taken from classic or modern fiction. Drawung on writers as diverse as Henry James and Martin Amis, Jane Austen and Fay Weldon and Henry Fielding and James Joyce, David lodge makes accessible to the general reader the richness and variety of british and America fictuon. Technical terms such as interior monologue, matafiction, intertextuality and the unreliable narraton, are lucidly explained and their application demonstrated... | | Contents note: | Beginning (Fane Austen, Ford Madax Ford); The Intrusive Author (George Eliot,E.M Forster); Suspense (Thomas Hardy); Teenage Skaz (F.D. Salinger); The Epistolary Novel (Michael Frayn); Point of view (Henry Fames); Mystery (Rudyard Kipling); Names (David Lodge,Paul Auster); The Stream of consciousness (Virginia Woolf); Interior monologue (Fames Foyce); Defamiliarization (Charlotte Bronte); The sense of place (Martin Amis); Lists (F.Scoott Fitzgerald); Introducing A Character (Christopher Isherwood); Surprise (William Makepeace Thackeray); Time-shift (Muriel Spark); The reader in the text (Laurence Sterne); Weather (Fane 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); 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) Bibliography of primary sources; Index of names; | | Record link: | https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=13770 |
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