Bibliograph

How to read novels like a professor, Thomas C. Foster

Type

Label

How to read novels like a professor, Thomas C. Foster

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

How to read novels like a professor

Oclc number

190860169

Responsibility statement

Thomas C. Foster

Table Of Contents

Novel possibilities, or all animals aren't pigs? -- Pickup lines and open(ing) seductions or, why novels have first pages -- You can't breathe where the air is clear -- Who's in charge here? -- Never trust a narrator with a speaking part -- A still, small voice (or a great, galumphing one) -- Men (and women) made out of words, or, My pip ain't like your pip -- When very bad people happen to good novels -- Wrinkles in time, or, Chapters just might matter -- Everywhere is just one place -- Clarissa's flowers -- Met-him-pike-hoses -- Life sentences -- Drowning in the stream of consciousness -- The light on Daisy's dock -- Fiction about fiction -- Source codes and recycle bins -- Improbabilities : foundlings and magi, colonels and boy wizards -- What's the big idea, or even the small one? -- Who broke my novel? -- Untidy endings -- History in the novel/the novel in history -- Conspiracy theory

Target audience

adult

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