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9780679734031

The Art of Fiction

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  • ISBN13:

    9780679734031

  • ISBN10:

    0679734031

  • Edition: Revised
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1991-06-04
  • Publisher: Vintage

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Summary

"John Gardner was famous for his generosity to young writers, and (this book) is his . . . gift to them. The Art of Fiction will fascinate anyone interested in how fiction gets put together. For the young writer, it will become a necessary handbook, a stern judge, an encouraging friend."--The New York Times Book Review.

Author Biography

John Gardner was accorded wide praise for his works of imagination, of criticism, and of scholarship.  He was born in 1933 in Batavia, New York.  Among the universities at which he taught are Oberlin, San Francisco State, Northwestern, Southern Illinois, Bennington and SUNY-Binghamton. The Art of Fiction was completed before his death in 1982.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
PART I Notes on Literary-Aesthetic Theory 3(94)
1 Aesthetic Law and Artistic Mystery
3(14)
2 Basic Skills, Genre, and Fiction as Dream
17(22)
3 Interest and Truth
39(43)
4 Metafiction, Deconstruction, and Jazzing Around
82(15)
PART II Notes on the Fictional Process 97(98)
5 Common Errors
97(28)
6 Technique
125(40)
7 Plotting
165(30)
Exercises 195(12)
Index 207

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