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An edition of A kite in the wind (2011)

A kite in the wind

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"Twenty essays by veteran writers and master teachers offering advice on fundamental aspects of craft such as characterization, character names, first person point of view, and unreliable narrators, as well as consideration of more sophisticated topics, including imminence, creating tension, and the deliberate manipulation of information to create particular effects"--Provided by publisher.

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Trinity University Press
Language
English
Pages
343

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Authorship, Fiction, Fiction, general, Authors, fiction

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A kite in the wind: fiction writers on their craft
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Table of Contents

The author-narrator-character merge: why many first-time novelists wind up with flat, uninteresting protagonists / Frederick Reiken
Self-awareness and self-deception: beyond the unreliable narrator / Sarah Stone
The truthless narrator / Judy Doenges
First person: finding the right address / Wilton Barnhardt
Comic and Cosmic distance / C.J. Hribal
In the garden: revealing a character at a moment of change / Megan Staffel
The space between / Stacey D'Erasmo
The literature of delusion: approaches to madness and mania in fiction / Dominic Smith
The absence of their presence: mythic character in fiction / Steven Schwartz
Emblem, essence / Robert Cohen
"It's a wooden leg first": on the nature of seeing in fiction / Maud Casey
Matrix for meaning: physical setting in Cormac McCarthy's Blood meridian / Alexander Parsons
Some reflections on the concept of place in fiction / Karen Brennan
The heart one knows by heart: operating instructions for operating instructions / Michael Martone
Size matters / Debra Spark
Puzzle, mysteries, and other problems; or, the seven bridges of Königsberg / Peter Turchi
The breakout element: unpredictability and the novel / Lan Samantha Chang
Lush life / Charles Baxter
On suspense, shower murders, the sword of Damocles, and shooting people on the beach / Anthony Doerr
The about-to-be moment: imminence in the Grimm fairy tales / Kevin McIlvoy.

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Includes bibliographical references.

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Dewey Decimal Class
808.3
Library of Congress
PN3355 .K526 2011, PN3355.K526 2011

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Pagination
xiii, 343 p. :
Number of pages
343

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Open Library
OL25064991M
Internet Archive
isbn_9781595340726
ISBN 10
1595340718, 1595340726
ISBN 13
9781595340719, 9781595340726
LCCN
2010040208
OCLC/WorldCat
666573582

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