ASPECTS OF THE NOVEL: A Classic Guide with Witty Insights for Writers and Readers - Softcover

Forster, E.M.

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ISBN 10: 0156091801 ISBN 13: 9780156091800

Verlag: Mariner Books, 1956

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A highly original and intelligent investigation of the novel from celebrated writer and “gentle genius” E. M. Forster

 

E. M. Forster’s renowned guide to writing sparkles with wit and insight for contemporary writers and readers. With lively language and excerpts from well-known classics, Forster takes on the seven elements vital to a novel: story, people, plot, fantasy, prophecy, pattern, and rhythm. He not only defines and explains such terms as “round” versus “flat” characters (and why both are needed for an effective novel), but also provides examples of writing from such literary greats as Dickens and Austen. Forster's original commentary illuminates and entertains without lapsing into complicated, scholarly rhetoric, coming together in a key volume on writing that avoids chronology and what he calls “pseudoscholarship.”

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A multi–Nobel Prize in Literature nominee, EDWARD MORGAN FORSTER (1879-1970) was the author of many well-known novels, including Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905), A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910), A Passage to India (1924), and Maurice (1971). He also wrote several volumes of criticism and essays.

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The wit and lively, informed originality Forster employs in his study of the novel has made this book a classic. Deliberately avoiding the chronological development approach of what he classifies 'pseudosholarship, ' the author freely examines aspects all English-language novels have in common.

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• Verlag: Mariner Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1956
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0156091801
• ISBN 13: 9780156091800
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 190
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