Brady Story Logic and the Craft of Fiction

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-137-03720-6
Verlag: Macmillan Education
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Ebook (PDF)

Focused on the challenges faced by aspiring writers, Brady illuminates how technique serves 'story logic', the particular way fiction makes meaning. She offers a closer look at craft fundamentals (plot, characterization, point-of-view, imagery, style, and setting), including examples from classic and contemporary fiction and writing exercises.

Zielgruppe

Lower undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brady, Catherine

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Story Logic.- The Elusiveness at the Heart of Story Structure.- Chapter Structure and Shapeliness in the Novel.- Three Key Strategies of Story Logic.- Captured in Motion: Dynamic Characterization.- Point of View Q& A .- Synedoche and Metonymy in Setting, Staging and Dialogue .- Patterns of Imagery.- Showing and Telling.- The Sentence as a Touchstone of Style .- Exercises .- Notes .- Further Reading.

Über Autor(innen)

Catherine Brady is the author of three story collections, including Curled in the Bed of Love, winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. A former president of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs, she teaches in the MFA in Writing Program at the University of San Francisco, USA.