| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
ix, 364 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Anecdote and storyteller -- Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Woolf -- Characters: Are they like people? -- How are characters conceived? -- Five instances of characterization -- The common reader -- Criticism of fiction -- Dickens: three notes -- Farce and fiction -- History and the novel: variations on a theme -- Kipling's Kim: ecstasies -- Naturalism and taste -- Novels of academic life -- Obscurity in the novel -- Punitive novels -- Walter Scott: falling out of the canon -- The self in literature -- Style and the novel: some preliminary paragraphs -- Tolstoy: five comments -- Tone in fiction. |
| Subject |
Criticism.
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Literature -- History and criticism.
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| Added Author |
Howe, Nicholas.
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| ISBN |
0151199493 27.95 |
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