The Art Of Fiction

Publisher : National Geographic Books
Release Date : 1991-06-04
ISBN : 0679734031
Pages : 0 pages
Rating Book: 4.7/5 (679 users)

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Download or read book The Art of Fiction written by John Gardner and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1991-06-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic guide, from the renowned novelist and professor, has helped transform generations of aspiring writers into masterful writers—and will continue to do so for many years to come. John Gardner was almost as famous as a teacher of creative writing as he was for his own works. In this practical, instructive handbook, based on the courses and seminars that he gave, he explains, simply and cogently, the principles and techniques of good writing. Gardner’s lessons, exemplified with detailed excerpts from classic works of literature, sweep across a complete range of topics—from the nature of aesthetics to the shape of a refined sentence. Written with passion, precision, and a deep respect for the art of writing, Gardner’s book serves by turns as a critic, mentor, and friend. Anyone who has ever thought of taking the step from reader to writer should begin here.

The Art of Fiction

by Ayn Rand

Publisher : Penguin
Release Date : 2000-01-01
ISBN : 1101137231
Pages : 192 pages
Rating Book: 4.0/5 (11 users)

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Download or read book The Art of Fiction written by Ayn Rand and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1958, Ayn Rand, already the world-famous author of such bestselling books as Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, gave a private series of extemporaneous lectures in her own living room on the art of fiction. Tore Boeckmann and Leonard Peikoff for the first time now bring readers the edited transcript of these exciting personal statements. The Art of Fiction offers invaluable lessons, in which Rand analyzes the four essential elements of fiction: theme, plot, characterization, and style. She demonstrates her ideas by dissecting her best-known works, as well as those of other famous authors, such as Thomas Wolfe, Sinclair Lewis, and Victor Hugo. An historic accomplishment, this compendium will be a unique and fascinating resource for both writers and readers of fiction.

The Art of Criticism

by Henry James

Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1986
ISBN : 0226391973
Pages : 524 pages
Rating Book: 4.2/5 (226 users)

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Download or read book The Art of Criticism written by Henry James and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of "the most important" of Henry James' Prefaces; "his studies of Hawthorne, George Eliot, Balzac, Zola, de Maupassant, Turgenev, Sainte-Beuve, and Arnold; and his essays on the function of criticism and the future of the novel."--P. [4] of cover.

The Art of Fiction

by John Gardner

Publisher : Vintage
Release Date : 2010-08-18
ISBN : 0307756718
Pages : 240 pages
Rating Book: 4.0/5 (37 users)

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Download or read book The Art of Fiction written by John Gardner and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-08-18 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic guide, from the renowned novelist and professor, has helped transform generations of aspiring writers into masterful writers—and will continue to do so for many years to come. John Gardner was almost as famous as a teacher of creative writing as he was for his own works. In this practical, instructive handbook, based on the courses and seminars that he gave, he explains, simply and cogently, the principles and techniques of good writing. Gardner’s lessons, exemplified with detailed excerpts from classic works of literature, sweep across a complete range of topics—from the nature of aesthetics to the shape of a refined sentence. Written with passion, precision, and a deep respect for the art of writing, Gardner’s book serves by turns as a critic, mentor, and friend. Anyone who has ever thought of taking the step from reader to writer should begin here.

The Art of Fiction

by Henry James

Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
Release Date : 2021-10-18
ISBN : 3986471197
Pages : 111 pages
Rating Book: 4.8/5 (986 users)

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Download or read book The Art of Fiction written by Henry James and published by Phoemixx Classics Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-10-18 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of Fiction Henry James - World-renowned novelist and short story author Henry James offers practical advice and considerable insight on what makes quality fiction, and how good writers can create it.A common theme seen in Henry James' works is contrasting the naivete and untrammeled freedom of the New World with the knowledgeable but corrupt nature of Europe and the Old World. Beginning with short stories while in his 20s, James quickly gained a reputation as a skilled wordsmith and compelling narrator. His innovative style was emblematic of new forms of penmanship which partly displaced and partly accentuated the prevalent Romantic and Victorian literary forms.Much of Henry James teaching contains his opinions on the nature and purpose of fiction. His theories about what a novel should present - as entertainment, as art, and as a reflection upon the author - offer readers thoughtful and informed analysis of creative writing. What roles that characters should take, and how description should reflect such characters and their surroundings and doings, are also considered.In differentiating how people tell stories to one another day-to-day, and how a professional storyteller should put his tale to paper, James offers a distinctive and valuable opinion on the subject. While aspects of his thought belong to their time, the view of an experienced and lauded author on the subject of writing good stories both short and long holds certain value to aspiring authors and enthusiastic readers to this day.

The Art of Fiction

by Walter Besant

Publisher :
Release Date : 1885
ISBN :
Pages : 85 pages
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Download or read book The Art of Fiction written by Walter Besant and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Virgil's Eclogues and the Art of Fiction

by Raymond Kania

Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2016-03-08
ISBN : 1316538958
Pages : pages
Rating Book: 4.1/5 (316 users)

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Download or read book Virgil's Eclogues and the Art of Fiction written by Raymond Kania and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many scholars have seen ancient bucolic poetry as a venue for thinking about texts and textuality. This book reassesses Virgil's Eclogues and their genre, arguing that they are better read as fiction - that is, as a work that refers not merely to itself or to other texts but to a world of its own making. This makes for a rich work of art and an object of legitimate aesthetic and imaginative engagement. Increased attention to the fictionality of Virgilian poetry also complicates and enriches the Eclogues' social and political dimensions. The book offers new interpretations of poems like Eclogues 5 and 9, which, according to traditional allegorical readings, concern Julius Caesar and the confiscation of lands under Octavian, respectively. It shows how the Eclogue world stands in a less stable relation to reality; these poems challenge readers at every turn to reimagine the relationship between fiction and the real.

A Manual of the Art of Fiction

by Clayton Hamilton

Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Release Date : 2009-10-01
ISBN : 1557427909
Pages : 178 pages
Rating Book: 4.5/5 (557 users)

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Download or read book A Manual of the Art of Fiction written by Clayton Hamilton and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a complete course in writing fiction. Drawing examples from the works of such masters as Poe, Hawthorne, and Robert Louis Stevenson, it offers a guided course through such vital topics as Realism, Plot, Characters, Setting, Point of View, The Epic, Structure of the Short Story, and much more.

Edith Wharton and the Art of Fiction

by Penelope Vita-Finzi

Publisher : Burns & Oates
Release Date : 1990
ISBN :
Pages : 188 pages
Rating Book: 4.B/5 (5 users)

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Download or read book Edith Wharton and the Art of Fiction written by Penelope Vita-Finzi and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1990 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edith Wharton was a travel and architectural writer as well as a novelist. Her belief in the classical principles of order and harmony is revealed in her non-fiction works and this led her to a conviction of the need for a coherent theory of fiction. However, her attempt to formulate such a theory was undermined by her romantic idea of inspiration and imagination, and this tension between classical and romantic principles is clearly revealed by comparisons between her works of non-fiction and fiction.

The Art of Fiction

by David Lodge

Publisher : Penguin Books
Release Date : 1992
ISBN :
Pages : 260 pages
Rating Book: 4.3/5 (32 users)

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Download or read book The Art of Fiction written by David Lodge and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the art of fiction under a wide range of topics, each illustrated by a short passage taken from classic and modern fiction.

Nineteenth-Century British Novelists on the Novel

by George L. Barnett

Publisher : Ardent Media
Release Date : 1971
ISBN :
Pages : 340 pages
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Download or read book Nineteenth-Century British Novelists on the Novel written by George L. Barnett and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1971 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Henry James and the Art of Impressions

by John Scholar

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2020
ISBN : 0198853513
Pages : 310 pages
Rating Book: 4.9/5 (198 users)

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Download or read book Henry James and the Art of Impressions written by John Scholar and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry James criticized the impressionism movement, yet time and again used the word 'impressio' to represent his characters's consciousness, as well as the work of the literary artist. This book explores this anomaly, placing James's work within the wider cultural history of impressionism.

Appreciating the Art of Television

by Ted Nannicelli

Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2016-09-13
ISBN : 1317555562
Pages : 228 pages
Rating Book: 4.1/5 (317 users)

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Download or read book Appreciating the Art of Television written by Ted Nannicelli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary television has been marked by such exceptional programming that it is now common to hear claims that TV has finally become an art. In Appreciating the Art of Television, Nannicelli contends that televisual art is not a recent development, but has in fact existed for a long time. Yet despite the flourishing of two relevant academic subfields—the philosophy of film and television aesthetics—there is little scholarship on television, in general, as an art form. This book aims to provide scholars active in television aesthetics with a critical overview of the relevant philosophical literature, while also giving philosophers of film a particular account of the art of television that will hopefully spur further interest and debate. It offers the first sustained theoretical examination of what is involved in appreciating television as an art and how this bears on the practical business of television scholars, critics, students, and fans—namely the comprehension, interpretation, and evaluation of specific televisual artworks.

The Art of Fiction

by Walter Besant

Publisher :
Release Date : 1884
ISBN :
Pages : 78 pages
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Download or read book The Art of Fiction written by Walter Besant and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Rhetoric of Fiction

by Wayne C. Booth

Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2010-05-15
ISBN : 0226065596
Pages : 572 pages
Rating Book: 4.2/5 (226 users)

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Download or read book The Rhetoric of Fiction written by Wayne C. Booth and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-05-15 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of The Rhetoric of Fiction transformed the criticism of fiction and soon became a classic in the field. One of the most widely used texts in fiction courses, it is a standard reference point in advanced discussions of how fictional form works, how authors make novels accessible, and how readers recreate texts, and its concepts and terms—such as "the implied author," "the postulated reader," and "the unreliable narrator"—have become part of the standard critical lexicon. For this new edition, Wayne C. Booth has written an extensive Afterword in which he clarifies misunderstandings, corrects what he now views as errors, and sets forth his own recent thinking about the rhetoric of fiction. The other new feature is a Supplementary Bibliography, prepared by James Phelan in consultation with the author, which lists the important critical works of the past twenty years—two decades that Booth describes as "the richest in the history of the subject."

History of Fiction in China

by Zhi Dao

Publisher : DeepLogic
Release Date :
ISBN :
Pages : pages
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Download or read book History of Fiction in China written by Zhi Dao and published by DeepLogic. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides highlights on the key concepts and trends of evolution in History of Fiction in China, as one of the series of books of “China Classified Histories”.

A Victorian Art of Fiction: 1830-1850

by John Charles Olmsted

Publisher : New York : Garland Pub.
Release Date : 1979
ISBN :
Pages : 730 pages
Rating Book: 4.B/5 (4 users)

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Download or read book A Victorian Art of Fiction: 1830-1850 written by John Charles Olmsted and published by New York : Garland Pub.. This book was released on 1979 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: