How to read novels like a professor
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| Language: | English |
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Harper,
c2008.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Foster, Thomas C. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a How to read novels like a professor / |c Thomas C. Foster. |
| 250 | |a 1st ed. | ||
| 260 | |a New York : |b Harper, |c c2008. | ||
| 300 | |a xviii, 312 p. ; |c 21 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-312). | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Preface: Novel possibilities, or all animals aren't pigs? -- Introduction: Once upon a time : a short, chaotic, and entirely idiosyncratic history of the novel -- Pickup lines and open(ing) seductions or, why novels have first pages -- You can't breathe where the air is clear -- Who's in charge here? -- Never trust a narrator with a speaking part -- A still, small voice (or a great, galumphing one) -- Men (and women) made out of words, or, My pip ain't like your pip -- When very bad people happen to good novels -- Wrinkles in time, or Chapters just might matter -- Everywhere is just one place -- Clarissa's flowers -- Met-him-pike-hoses -- Life sentences -- Drowning in the stream of consciousness -- The light on Daisy's dock -- Fiction about fiction -- Source codes and recycle bins -- Interlude: Read with your ears -- Improbabilities : foundlings and magi, colonels and boy wizards -- What's the big idea--or even the small one? -- Who broke my novel? -- Untidy endings -- History in the novel/the novel in history -- Conspiracy theory -- Conclusion: The never-ending journey. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Fiction |x History and criticism. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Books and reading. | |
| 690 | 0 | |a Hays, Sara Light tribute | |
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