LEADER 04894nam 2200649 450 001 9910811489003321 005 20240131141510.0 010 $a1-383-04274-8 010 $a1-280-84409-4 010 $a0-19-153595-8 010 $a1-4294-5941-7 035 $a(CKB)1000000000471479 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH24080667 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000173530 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11181775 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000173530 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10185431 035 $a(PQKB)11665379 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4700133 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11272751 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL84409 035 $a(OCoLC)778339558 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL431138 035 $a(OCoLC)609831987 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4700133 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000471479 100 $a20161012h20062006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHow novels work /$fJohn Mullan 210 1$aOxford, England :$cOxford University Press,$d2006. 210 4$dİ2006 215 $a1 online resource (x, 346 p.) 300 $aOriginally published: 2006. 311 $a0-19-928177-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntro -- Contents -- References -- Introduction -- 1. Beginning -- 2. Narrating -- 3. People -- 4. Genre -- 5. Voices -- 6. Structure -- 7. Detail -- 8. Style -- 9. Devices -- 10. Literariness -- 11. Ending -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aUsing examples from popular novels, this work examines the techniques by which fiction works. It explains how the pleasures of novel reading often come from the formal ingenuity of the novelist. 330 $bNever has contemporary fiction been more widely discussed and passionately analysed; recent years have seen a huge growth in the number of reading groups and in the interest of a non-academic readership in the discussion of how novels work. Drawing on his weekly Guardian column, 'Elements of Fiction', John Mullan examines novels mostly of the last ten years, many of which have become firm favourites with reading groups. He reveals the rich resources of novelistic technique, setting recent fiction alongside classics of the past. Nick Hornby's adoption of a female narrator is compared to Daniel Defoe's; Ian McEwan's use of weather is set against Austen's and Hardy's; Carole Shield's chapter divisions are likened to Fanny Burney's. Each section shows how some basic element of fiction is used. Some topics (like plot, dialogue, or location) will appear familiar to most novel readers; others (metanarrative, prolepsis, amplification) will open readers' eyes to new ways of understanding and appreciating the writer's craft. How Novels Work explains how the pleasures of novel reading often come from the formal ingenuity of the novelist. It is an entertaining and stimulating exploration of that ingenuity. Addressed to anyone who is interested in the close reading of fiction, it makes visible techniques and effects we are often only half-aware of as we read. It shows that literary criticism is something that all fiction enthusiasts can do. Contemporary novels discussed include: Monica Ali's Brick Lane; Martin Amis's Money; Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin; A.S. Byatt's Possession; Jonathan Coe's The Rotters' Club; J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace; Michael Cunningham's The Hours; Don DeLillo's Underworld; Michel Faber's The Crimson Petal and the White; Ian Fleming's From Russia with Love; Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections; Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time; Patricia Highsmith's Ripley under Ground; Alan Hollinghurst's The Spell; Nick Hornby's How to Be Good; Ian McEwan's Atonement; John le Carre's The Constant Gardener; Andrea Levy's Small Island; David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas; Andrew O'Hagan's Personality; Orhan Pamuk's My Name Is Red; Ann Patchett's Bel Canto; Ruth Rendell's Adam and Eve and Pinch Me; Philip Roth's The Human Stain; Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated; Carol Shields's Unless; Zadie Smith's White Teeth; Muriel Spark's Aiding and Abetting; Graham Swift's Last Orders; Donna Tartt's The Secret History; William Trevor's The Hill Bachelors; and Richard Yates's Revolutionary Road . 606 $aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc 606 $aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc 606 $aFiction$xTechnique 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc. 615 0$aFiction$xTechnique. 676 $a823.009 700 $aMullan$b John$f1958-$0550873 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811489003321 996 $aHow novels work$94076745 997 $aUNINA