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How Fiction Works

Author	: James Wood
Publisher	: Random House
Release Date	: 2010-12-07
ISBN	: 1446414485
Pages	: 240 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book How Fiction Works written by James Wood and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-12-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rediscover this deep, practical anatomy of the novel from 'the strongest ... literary critic we have' (New York Review of Books) in this new revised 10th anniversary edition. What do we mean when we say we 'know' a fictional character? What constitutes a 'telling' detail? When is a metaphor successful? Is realism realistic? Why do most endings of novels disappoint? In the tradition of E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Milan Kundera's The Art of the Novel, How Fiction Works is a study of the main elements of fiction, such as narrative, detail, characterization, dialogue, realism, and style. In his first full-length book of criticism, one of the most prominent critics of our time takes the machinery of story-telling apart to ask a series of fundamental questions. Wood ranges widely, from Homer to Beatrix Potter, from the Bible to John Le Carré, and his book is both a study of the techniques of fiction-making and an alternative history of the novel. Playful and profound, it incisively sums up two decades of bold, often controversial, and now classic critical work, and will be enlightening to writers, readers, and anyone interested in what happens on the page. 'Should find a place on every novel-lover's shelf. It has the quality all useful works of criticism should have: refined taste, keen observation, and the ability to make the reader argue, passionately, with it' Financial Times

The Critic in the Modern World

Author	: James Ley
Publisher	: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date	: 2014-05-08
ISBN	: 1623568277
Pages	: 240 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book The Critic in the Modern World written by James Ley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Critic in the Modern World explores the work of six influential literary critics-Samuel Johnson, William Hazlitt, Matthew Arnold, T.S. Eliot, Lionel Trilling and James Wood-each of whom occupies a distinct historical moment. It considers how these representative critics have constructed their public personae, the kinds of arguments they have used, and their core principles and philosophies. Spanning three hundred years of cultural history, The Critic in the Modern World considers the various ways in which literary critics have positioned themselves in relation to the modern tradition of descriptive criticism. In providing a lucid account of each critic's central principles and philosophies, it considers the role of the literary critic as a public figure, interpreting him as someone who is compelled to address the wider issues of individualism and the social implications of the democratising, secularising, liberalising forces of modernity.

21st Century Philosophy

Author	: James Ward
Publisher	: Cool Millennium
Release Date	: 2019-08-26
ISBN	:
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book 21st Century Philosophy written by James Ward and published by Cool Millennium. This book was released on 2019-08-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 21st Century Philosophy uses selected popular texts, all written in the last decade, as a window through which to examine contemporary social and cultural issues. What are the long-term prospects for ‘New Atheism’? On balance, is the United States chiefly a force for good, or is it bent on hegemony? Is the optimism of the Enlightenment a historical curiosity, or can it be revived? To what extent can quality fiction enlarge the modern imagination, and how far are we stuck in a rut of banality? What is the connection between academic ideals and the proliferation of kitsch? What light can Rousseau or Russell, Hume or Heidegger, Schopenhauer or Sartre shed on these sorts of questions - if any? The book consists of eight essays that can be read in any order, with a combined length of over 80,000 words. The author has a master’s degree and a DPhil, both in Philosophy from Sussex University. His doctoral thesis was examined in viva and passed unconditionally by David McLellan, Emeritus Professor of Political Theory at the University of Kent and author of many standard texts about Marx in English. In 1998, James Ward won joint first prize (along with Martha Nussbaum and Lars Gårding) in a philosophical dialogues competition organised by the Humanities Research Centre at Oxford University and the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm. Its subject was Søren Kierkegaard. The dialogue was performed at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm, in front of an invited audience, and subsequently published in Comparative Criticism vol. 20 (Cambridge University Press, 1998).

Australian Fiction as Archival Salvage

Author	: Frances A. Johnson
Publisher	: BRILL
Release Date	: 2015-11-27
ISBN	: 900431167X
Pages	: 354 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Australian Fiction as Archival Salvage written by Frances A. Johnson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-11-27 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australian Fiction as Archival Salvage examines developments in the Australian postcolonial historical novel from 1989 to the present, including seminal experiments in the genre by Kate Grenville, Mudrooroo, Kim Scott, Peter Carey, Rohan Wilson and others.

David Lodge and the Tradition of the Modern Novel

Author	: J. Russell Perkin
Publisher	: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date	: 2014-02-11
ISBN	: 077359180X
Pages	: 225 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book David Lodge and the Tradition of the Modern Novel written by J. Russell Perkin and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Lodge is a much-loved novelist and influential literary critic. Examining his career from his earliest publications in the late 1950s to his more recent works, David Lodge and the Tradition of the Modern Novel identifies Lodge's central place within the canon of twentieth-century British literature. J. Russell Perkin argues that liberalism is the defining feature of Lodge's identity as a novelist, critic, and Roman Catholic intellectual, and demonstrates that Graham Greene, James Joyce, Kingsley Amis, Henry James, and H.G. Wells are the key influences on Lodge's fiction. Perkin also considers Lodge's relationship to contemporary British novelists, including Hilary Mantel, Julian Barnes, and Monica Ali. In a study that is both theoretically informed and accessible to the general reader, Perkin shows that Lodge's work is shaped by the dialectic of modernism and the realist tradition. Through an approach that draws on diverse theories of literary influence and history, David Lodge and the Tradition of the Modern Novel provides the most thorough treatment of the novelist's career to date.

Searching for the Self

Author	: Adrian T. Smith
Publisher	: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date	: 2018-01-22
ISBN	: 1498298362
Pages	: 348 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Searching for the Self written by Adrian T. Smith and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-01-22 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Who am I?" If you are unsure of your personal identity, you are not alone. Our postmodern culture multiplies identity-crisis. Identity comes from story--the better our story, the healthier our identity and our behavior. Searching for the Self helps you discover your own story, and discern how cultural narratives shape your behavior. Channeling the ancient wisdom of classic stories--including Christian Scripture viewed as true story--this book offers hope to anyone searching for a better story to live by. Searching for the Self provides a groundbreaking synthesis of narrative psychology, cultural analysis, biblical studies, and English Literature 101--all written in an engaging style and interwoven with revealing personal anecdotes.

Imagining and Knowing

Author	: Gregory Currie
Publisher	: Oxford University Press
Release Date	: 2020-02-14
ISBN	: 0192636782
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Imagining and Knowing written by Gregory Currie and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Works of fiction are works of the imagination and for the imagination. Gregory Currie energetically defends the familiar idea that fictions are guides to the imagination, a view which has come under attack in recent years. Responding to a number of challenges to this standpoint, he argues that within the domain of the imagination there lies a number of distinct and not well-recognized capacities which make the connection between fiction and imagination work. Currie then considers the question of whether in guiding the imagination fictions may also guide our beliefs, our outlook, and our habits in directions of learning. It is widely held that fictions very often provide opportunities for the acquisition of knowledge and of skills. Without denying that this sometimes happens, this book explores the difficulties and dangers of too optimistic a picture of learning from fiction. It is easy to exaggerate the connection between fiction and learning, to ignore countervailing tendencies in fiction to create error and ignorance, and to suppose that claims about learning from fiction require no serious empirical support. Currie makes a case for modesty about learning from fiction — reasoning that a lot of what we take to be learning in this area is itself a kind of pretence, that we are too optimistic about the psychological and moral insights of authors, that the case for fiction as a Darwinian adaptation is weak, and that empathy is both hard to acquire and not always morally advantageous.

Literary Fiction

Author	: Geir Farner
Publisher	: A&C Black
Release Date	: 2014-01-30
ISBN	: 162356025X
Pages	: 336 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book Literary Fiction written by Geir Farner and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insofar as literary theory has addressed the issue of literature as a means of communication and the function of literary fiction, opinions have been sharply divided, indicating that the elementary foundations of literary theory and criticism still need clarifying. Many of the "classical" problems that literary theory has been grappling with from Aristotle to our time are still waiting for a satisfactory solution. Based on a new cognitive model of literature as communication, Farner systematically explains how literary fiction works, providing new solutions to a wide range of literary issues, like intention, function, evaluation, delimitation of the literary work as such, fictionality, suspense, and the roles of author and narrator, along with such narratological problems as voice, point of view and duration. Covering a wide range of literary issues central to literary theory, offering new theories while also summarising the field as it stands, Literary Fiction will be a valuable guide and resource for students and scholars of the theory of literature.

The Novel and the New Ethics

Author	: Dorothy J. Hale
Publisher	: Stanford University Press
Release Date	: 2020-11-24
ISBN	: 1503614077
Pages	: 360 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book The Novel and the New Ethics written by Dorothy J. Hale and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a generation of contemporary Anglo-American novelists, the question "Why write?" has been answered with a renewed will to believe in the ethical value of literature. Dissatisfied with postmodernist parody and pastiche, a broad array of novelist-critics—including J.M. Coetzee, Toni Morrison, Zadie Smith, Gish Jen, Ian McEwan, and Jonathan Franzen—champion the novel as the literary genre most qualified to illuminate individual ethical action and decision-making within complex and diverse social worlds. Key to this contemporary vision of the novel's ethical power is the task of knowing and being responsible to people different from oneself, and so thoroughly have contemporary novelists devoted themselves to the ethics of otherness, that this ethics frequently sets the terms for plot, characterization, and theme. In The Novel and the New Ethics, literary critic Dorothy J. Hale investigates how the contemporary emphasis on literature's social relevance sparks a new ethical description of the novel's social value that is in fact rooted in the modernist notion of narrative form. This "new" ethics of the contemporary moment has its origin in the "new" idea of novelistic form that Henry James inaugurated and which was consolidated through the modernist narrative experiments and was developed over the course of the twentieth century. In Hale's reading, the art of the novel becomes defined with increasing explicitness as an aesthetics of alterity made visible as a formalist ethics. In fact, it is this commitment to otherness as a narrative act which has conferred on the genre an artistic intensity and richness that extends to the novel's every word.

The Writer's Eye

Author	: Amy E. Weldon
Publisher	: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date	: 2018-07-12
ISBN	: 1350025321
Pages	: 232 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Writer's Eye written by Amy E. Weldon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-12 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning to write starts with learning to do one big thing: pay attention to the world around you, even though just about everything in modern life makes this more difficult than it needs to be. Developing habits and practices of observing, and writing down what you notice, can be the first step away from the anxieties and doubts that can hold you back from your ultimate goal as a writer: discovering something to say and a voice to say it in. The Writer's Eye is an inspiring guide for writers at all stages of their writing lives. Drawing on new research into creative writers and their relationship with the physical world, Amy E. Weldon shows us how to become more attentive observers of the world and find inspiration in any environment. Including exercises, writing prompts and sample texts and spanning multiple genres from novels to nonfiction to poetry, this is the ideal starting point for anyone beginning to write seriously and offers refreshing perspectives for experienced writers seeking new inspiration.

Joyce's Ulysses

Author	: Philip Kitcher
Publisher	: Oxford University Press
Release Date	: 2020-06-11
ISBN	: 019084227X
Pages	: 224 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Joyce's Ulysses written by Philip Kitcher and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though James Joyce was steeped in philosophy and humanism, he has received too little attention from contemporary philosophers in comparison to many of the other titans of modernist fiction. This book probes the possibilities for thinking philosophically about Joyce's masterpiece, Ulysses, presenting readings by renowned scholars such David Hills, Garry L. Hagberg, Vicki Mahaffey, Martha C. Nussbaum, Sam Slote, Wendy J. Truran, and Philip Kitcher, who also provides an introduction to the volume that considers broader themes and situates Ulysses as a work of philosophical interest. For the central characters of Ulysses--Leopold Bloom, Molly Bloom, and Stephen Dedalus, "How to live?" is an urgent question. Each must either start anew, or attempt to recover lost paths. Chapters plumb the depths of the philosophical quandaries that present themselves to these characters--reflections on death and overcoming disgust, Leopold Bloom's evocations of conscious thought, the dominance of vision in our thinking about the senses, identity, and the possibility of revising one's values are only a handful of the subjects covered in the volume. Ulysses is an intrinsically and deeply philosophical work, and these readings provide new inroads and firm orientation for Joyce's project. Readers will come away with renewed appreciation for one of our greatest works of literature in the English language, and deepened understanding of Joyce's attempt to offer alternative ways of structuring and enriching the world of our experience.

The Book Against God

Author	: James Wood
Publisher	: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date	: 2004-06-01
ISBN	: 1429932120
Pages	: 272 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Book Against God written by James Wood and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Passionate, Profoundly Funny First Novel from "the Best Literary Critic of His Generation" (Adam Begley, Financial Times) Thomas Bunting, the charming, chaotic, and deeply untruthful narrator of James Wood's wonderful first novel, is in despair. His marriage is disintegrating and his academic career is in ruins: instead of completing his philosophy Ph.D. (still unfinished after seven years), he is secretly writing what he hopes will be his masterwork, a vast atheistic project he has privately entitled "The Book Against God." But when his father suddenly falls ill, Thomas returns to the tiny village in the north of England where he grew up and where his father still works as a parish priest. There, Thomas hopes, he may finally be able to communicate honestly with his father, a brilliant and formidable Christian example, and sort out his own wayward life. But Thomas is a chronic liar as well as an atheist, and he finds, instead, that once at home he soon reverts to the evasive patterns of his childhood years—with disastrous results. The story of a husband and wife, a father and son, faith and disbelief, and a hero who couldn't tell the truth if his life depended on it, The Book Against God is at once hilarious and poignant; it introduces an original comic voice—edgy, elegiac, lyrical, and indignant—and, in the irrepressible Thomas Bunting, one of the strangest philosophers in contemporary fiction.

Rain Taxi Review of Books

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Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2008
ISBN	:
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.F/5 ( download)

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The Essential Wayne Booth

Author	: Wayne C. Booth
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2011-05-14
ISBN	: 9781459605787
Pages	: 692 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book The Essential Wayne Booth written by Wayne C. Booth and published by . This book was released on 2011-05-14 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wayne Booth wrote some of the most influential and engaging criticism of our time, most notably the 1961 classic The Rhetoric of Fiction, a book that transformed literary criticism and became the standard reference point for advanced discussions of how fiction works, how authors make novels accessible, and how readers re-create texts. While Booth's work was formative to the study of literature, his essential writings have never been collected in a single volume - until now. Selected by Walter Jost in collaboration with Booth himself, the texts anthologized here present a picture of this indispensable critic's contributions to literary and rhetorical studies. The selections range from memorable readings of Macbeth, Jane Austen, George Eliot, and Henry James to engagements with Booth's intellectual heroes, such as Richard McKeon and Mikhail Bakhtin. But rhetoric, Booth's abiding concern as a critic and thinker, provides the organizing principle of the anthology. The Essential Wayne Booth illuminates the scope of Booth's rhetorical inquiry; the entire range of resources that human beings share for producing effects on one another. Whether about metaphors for our friendship with books or the two cultures of science and religion, the texts collected here always return to the techniques and ethics of our ways of communicating with each other - that is, to rhetoric. The Essential Wayne Booth is a capstone to Booth's long career and an eloquent reminder of the ways in which criticism can make us alive to the arts of writing, talking, and listening.

New Statesman

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Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2008
ISBN	:
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.F/5 ( download)

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Newsweek

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Release Date	: 2008
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Pages	: pages
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One Hundred & Fifty Years

Author	: Hugh Nibley
Publisher	: Provo, Utah : Harold B. Lee Library Forum Committee ; Friends of the Library, Brigham Young University
Release Date	: 1980
ISBN	:
Pages	: 153 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book One Hundred & Fifty Years written by Hugh Nibley and published by Provo, Utah : Harold B. Lee Library Forum Committee ; Friends of the Library, Brigham Young University. This book was released on 1980 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: