The Makers of English Fiction
Author : William James Dawson
Publisher :
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 39,48 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Authors, English
ISBN :
Castles, Customs, and Kings
Author : English Historical Fiction Authors
Publisher :
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 50,19 MB
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780996264815
Book Description
An anthology of essays from the second year of the English Historical Fiction Authors blog, this book transports the reader across the centuries from prehistoric to twentieth century Britain. Nearly fifty different authors share the stories, incidents, and insights discovered while doing research for their own historical novels. From medieval law and literature to Tudor queens and courtiers, from Stuart royals and rebels to Regency soldiers and social calls, experience the panorama of Britain's yesteryear. Explore the history behind the fiction, and discover the true tales surrounding Britain's castles, customs, and kings.
The Ice-Cream Makers
Author : Ernest van der Kwast
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 16,38 MB
Release : 2017-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1501159399
Book Description
Follows the experiences of Giovanni Talamini, a poet who is torn between his family's and his own needs when he returns to Italy to help run the ice-cream dynasty he left behind years earlier.
Making Shapely Fiction
Author : Jerome Stern
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 29,97 MB
Release : 2011-04-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0393077691
Book Description
A deft analysis and appreciation of fiction—what makes it work and what can make it fail. Here is a book about the craft of writing fiction that is thoroughly useful from the first to the last page—whether the reader is a beginner, a seasoned writer, or a teacher of writing. You will see how a work takes form and shape once you grasp the principles of momentum, tension, and immediacy. "Tension," Stern says, "is the mother of fiction. When tension and immediacy combine, the story begins." Dialogue and action, beginnings and endings, the true meaning of "write what you know," and a memorable listing of don'ts for fiction writers are all covered. A special section features an Alphabet for Writers: entries range from Accuracy to Zigzag, with enlightening comments about such matters as Cliffhangers, Point of View, Irony, and Transitions.
Lost in the Funhouse
Author : John Barth
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 11,21 MB
Release : 2014-06-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0804152500
Book Description
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • John Barth's lively, highly original collection of short pieces is a major landmark of experimental fiction exploring themes of purpose and the meaning of existence. "[Barth] ran riot over literary rules and conventions, even as he displayed, with meticulous discipline, mastery of and respect for them." —The New York Times From its opening story, "Frame-Tale"--printed sideways and designed to be cut out by the reader and twisted into a never-ending Mobius strip--to the much-anthologized "Life-Story," whose details are left to the reader to "fill in the blank," Barth's acclaimed collection challenges our ideas of what fiction can do. Highlights include the Homerian story-wthin-a-story-within-a-story (times seven) of "Menalaiad,' and "Night-Sea Journey," a first-person account of a confused human sperm on its way to fertilize an egg. All of the characters in Lost in the Funhouse are searching, in one way or another, for their purpose and the meaning of their existence. Together, their stories form a kaleidescope of exuberant metafictional inventiveness.
The Art of Fiction
Author : David Lodge
Publisher : Random House
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 46,56 MB
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1448137799
Book Description
In this entertaining and enlightening collection David Lodge considers the art of fiction under a wide range of headings, drawing on writers as diverse as Henry James, Martin Amis, Jane Austen and James Joyce. Looking at ideas such as the Intrusive Author, Suspense, the Epistolary Novel, Magic Realism and Symbolism, and illustrating each topic with a passage taken from a classic or modern novel, David Lodge makes the richness and variety of British and American fiction accessible to the general reader. He provides essential reading for students, aspiring writers and anyone who wants to understand how fiction works.
The Norton Anthology of English Literature
Author : Meyer Howard Abrams
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 1311 pages
File Size : 17,56 MB
Release : 2001
Category : English literature
ISBN : 9780393963380
Book Description
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English Literature in Context
Author : Paul Poplawski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 757 pages
File Size : 30,4 MB
Release : 2017-05-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107141672
Book Description
From Anglo-Saxon runes to postcolonial rap, this undergraduate textbook covers the social and historical contexts of the whole of the English literature.
They
Author : Kay Dick
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,77 MB
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1946022349
Book Description
A dark, dystopian portrait of artists struggling to resist violent suppression—“queer, English, a masterpiece.” (Hilton Als) Set amid the rolling hills and the sandy shingle beaches of coastal Sussex, this disquieting novel depicts an England in which bland conformity is the terrifying order of the day. Violent gangs roam the country destroying art and culture and brutalizing those who resist the purge. As the menacing “They” creep ever closer, a loosely connected band of dissidents attempt to evade the chilling mobs, but it’s only a matter of time until their luck runs out. Winner of the 1977 South-East Arts Literature Prize, Kay Dick’s They is an uncanny and prescient vision of a world hostile to beauty, emotion, and the individual.
Linguistics and English Literature
Author : H. D. Adamson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 16,50 MB
Release : 2019-04-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107045401
Book Description
This undergraduate textbook introduces English literature students to the application of linguistics to literary analysis.
