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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
John Mullan |
ISBN: | 9780199281787 0199281785 9780199281770 0199281777 |
OCLC Number: | 180470106 |
Notes: | Originally published: 2006. |
Description: | x, 346 pages ; 19 cm |
Contents: | Beginning -- Narrating -- People -- Genre -- Voices -- Structure -- Detail -- Style -- Devices -- Literariness -- Ending. |
Responsibility: | John Mullan. |
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Expanding on his popular Guardian column, and focusing on a set of key novels, How Novels Work [mullan] aims to explain to the interested 'non-academic' reader critical approaches, particularly 'matters of form', which are normally considered the perserve of academia...the text is rich in critical and literary-historical insights...critical readings which...[are], above all, communicated in plain English. * Beth Lynch, TLS * Ever insightful critiques...wholly satisfying, and a great education for book-lovers and would-be novelists alike... Mullan is willing to go where other academics do not usually deign to tread. * Susan Elderkin, The Financial Times * A wealth of sharp mini-essays. * The Guardian (Review) * Read more...

