A critic's notebook / Irving Howe ; edited and introduced by Nicholas Howe
- Bib ID:
- 406143
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Howe, Irving, 1920-
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Description:
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- New York : Harcourt Brace, c1994
- ix, 364 p. ; 22 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0151199493
- Full contents:
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- Introduction / Nicholas Howe
- Anecdote and Storyteller
- Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Woolf
- Characters: Are They Like People?
- How Are Characters Conceived? Biography and Identity. Characters Out of Characters. The Uses of Opacity. Getting Out of Hand. Character Goes, but Also Remains
- Five Instances of Characterization. Fielding: Characters of Order. Sterne: Disorders of Character. George Eliot: Consciousness and Character. Gissing: Technique and Sensibility. Lawrence: Another Language Almost
- The Common Reader
- Criticism of Fiction. What Can We Do with Chekhov? Gogol's Overcoat, Eichenbaum's Stitching. On "Gratuitous Details"
- Dickens: Three Notes. Absolute Goodness and the Limits of Fiction. Impresario of Minor Characters. Becoming Dostoevsky
- Farce and Fiction
- History and the Novel: Variations on a Theme
- Kipling's Kim: Ecstasies
- Naturalism and Taste
- Novels of Academic Life
- Obscurity in the Novel. Punitive Novels.
- Walter Scott: Falling Out of the Canon. The Self in Literature. Style and the Novel: Some Preliminary Paragraphs
- Tolstoy: Five Comments. Did Anna Have to Die? The Russian Fly. The Unheroic Hero of War and Peace. The Old Magician. The Famous Details
- Tone in Fiction.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Howe, Nicholas
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 1994
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