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James Wood - How Fiction Works
Aug 19 2009 7:00 pm
Many first published in The New Yorker, others the fruit of his Harvard lectures in literature, Wood’s essays on fiction illuminate the many elements involved in the genre. Plot, narrative, the extent of the real in realism--Wood discusses these general features of fiction in the specific contexts of classic and contemporary writers from Homer and Flaubert to Updike and Kundera.
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