| The Art of Time in Fiction: As Long as It Takes Contributor(s): Silber, Joan (Author) |
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ISBN: 1555975305 ISBN-13: 9781555975302 Publisher: Graywolf Press OUR PRICE: $12.60 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2009 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Writing - Fiction Writing - Literary Criticism |
| Dewey: 808.3 |
| LCCN: 2008941980 |
| Series: Art Of... |
| Physical Information: 0.37" H x 5.86" W x 6.99" (0.30 lbs) 120 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Silber, Joan: - 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. |