John Mullan (University College London Professor of English)

How Novels Work

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 199mm x 128mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780199281787
• ISBN-10: 0199281785
• Artikelnr.: 23169433

Autorenporträt

John Mullan is Professor of English at University College London. He is the author of Sentiment and Sociability: The Language of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century and co-editor of Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: An Anthology. A broadcaster and journalist as well as an academic, he writes a weekly column on contemporary fiction for the Guardian.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Beginning
2: Narrating
3: People
4: Genre
5: Voices
6: Structure
7: Detail
8: Style
9: Devices
10: Literariness
11: Ending