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010 _a 2008001729
020 _a9780061340406 (pbk.)
020 _a0061340405 (pbk.)
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100 1 _aFoster, Thomas C.
245 1 0 _aHow to read novels like a professor /
_cThomas C. Foster.
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bHarper,
_cc2008.
300 _axviii, 312 p. ;
_c21 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [309]-312).
505 0 _aPreface: Novel possibilities, or all animals aren't pigs? -- Introduction: Once upon a time : a short, chaotic, and entirely idiosyncratic history of the novel -- 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 -- Interlude: Read with your ears -- 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 -- Conclusion: The never-ending journey.
650 0 _aFiction
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aBooks and reading.
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