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Description

1 online resource (x, 346 pages)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-335) and index.

Contents

Beginning -- Narrating -- People -- Genre -- Voices -- Structure -- Detail -- Style -- Devices -- Literariness -- Ending.

Description based on

Print version record.

Access

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Reproduction

Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL

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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL

Processing Action

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Summary

This book draws on the author's column in the Guardian, 'Elements of Fiction'. Using examples from well-known recent novels, it examines the techniques by which fiction works. It will widen the vocabulary of anyone interested in contemporary fiction, not least by showing where it has elements in common with classic novels of the past. - ;Never has contemporary fiction been more widely discussed and passionately analysed; recent years have seen a huge growth in the number of reading groups and in the interest of a non-academic readership in the discussion of how novels work. Drawing on his week.

Subject

English fiction -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.

American fiction -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.

Fiction -- Technique.

LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.

Genre/Form

Electronic books.

Other Form:

Print version: Mullan, John, 1958- How novels work. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006 0199281777 9780199281770 (DLC) 2006018926 (OCoLC)70167531

ISBN

9780191535956 (electronic bk.)

0191535958 (electronic bk.)