The Art of Time in Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Art of Time in Fiction write by Joan Silber. This book was released on 2009-06-23. The Art of Time in Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fiction imagines for us a stopping point from which life can be seen as intelligible," asserts Joan Silber in The Art of Time in Fiction. The end point of a story determines its meaning, and one of the main tasks a writer faces is to define the duration of a plot. Silber uses wide-ranging examples from F. Scott Fitzgerald, Chinua Achebe, and Arundhati Roy, among others, to illustrate five key ways in which time unfolds in fiction. In clear-eyed prose, Silber elucidates a tricky but vital aspect of the art of fiction.
The Art of Time in Memoir
The Art of Time in Memoir - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Art of Time in Memoir write by Sven Birkerts. This book was released on 2014-05-20. The Art of Time in Memoir available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes will provide a series of sustained examinations of key but sometimes neglected aspects of creative writing by some of contemporary literature's finest practioners. In The Art of Time in Memoir, critic and memoirist Sven Birkerts examines the human impulse to write about the self. By examining memoirs such as Vladimir Nabokov's Speak, Memory; Virginia Woolf's unfinished A Sketch of the Past; and Mary Karr's The Liars' Club, Birkerts describes the memoirist's essential art of assembling patterns of meaning, stirring to life our own sense of past and present.
The Art of Fiction
The Art of Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Art of Fiction write by John Gardner. This book was released on 2010-08-18. The Art of Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories
Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories write by Joan Silber. This book was released on 2005-05-17. Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Shortlisted for the National Book Award: "Joan Silber writes with wisdom, humor, grace, and wry intelligence. Her characters bear welcome news of how we will survive."—Andrea Barrett Intense in subject yet restrained in tone, these stories are about longings—often held for years—and the ways in which sex and religion can become parallel forms of dedication and comfort. Though the stories stand alone, a minor element in one becomes major in the next. In "My Shape", a woman is taunted by her dance coach, who later suffers his own heartache. A Venetian poet of the 1500s, another storyteller, is introduced to a modern traveler reading Rilke. His story precedes a mesmerizing narrative of missionaries in China. In the final story, Giles, born to a priesthood family, leans toward Buddhism after a grievous loss, and in time falls in love with the dancer of the first story. So deft and subtle is Joan Silber with these various perspectives that we come full circle surprised and enchanted by her myriad worlds. National Book Award finalist. Reading group guide included.
The Art of Fiction
The Art of Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Art of Fiction write by David Lodge. This book was released on 2012-04-30. The Art of Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this entertaining and enlightening collection David Lodge considers the art of fiction under a wide range of headings, drawing on writers as diverse as Henry James, Martin Amis, Jane Austen and James Joyce. Looking at ideas such as the Intrusive Author, Suspense, the Epistolary Novel, Magic Realism and Symbolism, and illustrating each topic with a passage taken from a classic or modern novel, David Lodge makes the richness and variety of British and American fiction accessible to the general reader. He provides essential reading for students, aspiring writers and anyone who wants to understand how fiction works.
