How to read novels like a professor
| Main Author: | Foster, Thomas C. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Harper,
c2008.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- 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.