The Art of Time in Fiction: As Long as It Takes
Joan Silber
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Description
Fiction imagines for us a stopping point from which life can be seen as intelligible," asserts Joan Silber in The Art of Time in Fiction. The end point of a story determines its meaning, and one of the main tasks a writer faces is to define the duration of a plot. Silber uses wide-ranging examples from F. Scott Fitzgerald, Chinua Achebe, and Arundhati Roy, among others, to illustrate five key ways in which time unfolds in fiction. In clear-eyed prose, Silber elucidates a tricky but vital aspect of the art of fiction.
Product Details
Price
$14.00
$13.02
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Publish Date
June 23, 2009
Pages
120
Dimensions
5.86 X 6.99 X 0.37 inches | 0.3 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781555975302
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Joan Silber is the author of six books of fiction, including The Size of the World. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in New York City.