Art of Fiction : A Collection of His Articles from the Independent on Sunday and the Washington Post

by Lodge, David

• ISBN13: 9780140174922
• ISBN10: 0140174923
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-07-01
• Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)

Summary

From Jane Austen to Paul Auster, irony to magical realism, the novelist's art is revealed in an entertaining and enlightening book for readers and writers--from the author of Nice Work. Here are 50 of David Lodge's articles from the acclaimed series that engaged and delighted readers of The Washington Post and the London Independent.

Table of Contents

Preface
Beginning (Jane Austen, Ford Madox Ford)	p. 3
The Intrusive Author (George Eliot, E. M. Forster)	p. 9
Suspense (Thomas Hardy)	p. 13
Teenage Skaz (J. D. Salinger)	p. 17
The Epistolary Novel (Michael Frayn)	p. 21
Point of View (Henry James)	p. 25
Mystery (Rudyard Kipling)	p. 30
Names (David Lodge, Paul Auster)	p. 35
The Stream of Consciousness (Virginia Woolf)	p. 41
Interior Monologue (James Joyce)	p. 46
Defamiliarization (Charlotte Bronte)	p. 52
The Sense of Place (Martin Amis)	p. 56
Lists (F. Scott Fitzgerald)	p. 61
Introducing a Character (Christopher Isherwood)	p. 66
Surprise (William Makepeace Thackeray)	p. 70
Time-Shift (Muriel Spark)	p. 74
The Reader in the Text (Laurence Sterne)	p. 80
Weather (Jane Austen, Charles Dickens)	p. 84
Repetition (Ernest Hemingway)	p. 89
Fancy Prose (Vladimir Nabokov)	p. 94
Intertextuality (Joseph Conrad)	p. 98
The Experimental Novel (Henry Green)	p. 104
The Comic Novel (Kingsley Amis)	p. 109
Magic Realism (Milan Kundera)	p. 113
Staying on the Surface (Malcolm Bradbury)	p. 117
Showing and Telling (Henry Fielding)	p. 121
Telling in Different Voices (Fay Weldon)	p. 125
A Sense of the Past (John Fowles)	p. 130
Imagining the Future (George Orwell)	p. 134
Symbolism (D. H. Lawrence)	p. 138
Allegory (Samuel Butler)	p. 142
Epiphany (John Updike)	p. 146
Coincidence (Henry James)	p. 149
The Unreliable Narrator (Kazuo Ishiguro)	p. 154
The Exotic (Graham Greene)	p. 158
Chapters etc (Tobias Smollett, Laurence Sterne, Walter Scott, George Eliot, James Joyce)	p. 162
The Telephone (Evelyn Waugh)	p. 169
Surrealism (Leonora Carrington)	p. 174
Irony (Arnold Bennett)	p. 178
Motivation (George Eliot)	p. 182
Duration (Donald Barthelme)	p. 186
Implication (William Cooper)	p. 189
The Title (George Gissing)	p. 193
Ideas (Anthony Burgess)	p. 197
The Non-Fiction Novel (Thomas Carlyle)	p. 201
Metafiction (John Barth)	p. 206
The Uncanny (Edgar Allan Poe)	p. 211
Narrative Structure (Leonard Michaels)	p. 215
Aporia (Samuel Beckett)	p. 219
Ending (Jane Austen, William Golding)	p. 223
Bibliography of primary sources	p. 231
Index of Names	p. 237
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