How fiction works

Description:

Provides a somewhat academic approach to a discussion of the main elements of fiction using examples (good and bad) from literature.

subjects: Fiction,  Authorship,  Technique,  History and criticism,  Fiction, technique,  New York Times reviewed,  Pn3331 .w67 2008,  808.3,  Fiction, history and criticism

People: E.M. Forster,  Jane Austen,  Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850),  Roland Barthes,  Saul Bellow,  Miguel de Cervantes,  Anton Chekhov,  Joseph Conrad (1857-1924),  Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881),  Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880),  Ford Madox Ford,  Thomas Hardy,  Henry James,  James Joyce (1882-1941),  D.H. Lawrence,  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1899-1977),  Marcel Proust (1871-1922),  William Shakespeare (1564-1616),  Leo Tolstoy graf (1828-1910),  John Updike (1932-2009),  Virginia Woolf