The stuff of fiction : advice on craft /
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Autor principal: | |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
©2006.
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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.