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The stuff of fiction : advice on craft /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bauer, Douglas
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2006.
Edición:Rev. & enl. ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Openings : ways of starting the story
  • And so we begin
  • Sentences : doing the dusty work
  • How sentences work
  • Dialogue : the reader as eavesdropper
  • Think of your ears as magnets
  • Putting it in context : foreground needs background
  • But why did the queen die?
  • Implicit narrative : achieving subtlety while avoiding confusion
  • Presence and absence
  • Characters : flawed heroes and sympathetic villains
  • Making heroes flawed
  • High events : the treatment of dramatic moments
  • The richness of the resonance
  • Sentiment versus sentimentality : the first, always; the second, never
  • No cheating allowed
  • Closings : ways of ending the story
  • Finally.