The Art of Time in Fiction: As Long as It Takes

by Joan Silber

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Fiction imagines for us a stopping point from which life can be seen as intelligible," asserts Joan Silber in The Art of Time in Fiction. The end point of a story determines its meaning, and one of the main tasks a writer faces is to define the duration of a plot. Silber uses wide-ranging examples from F. Scott Fitzgerald, Chinua Achebe, and Arundhati Roy, among others, to illustrate five key ways in which time unfolds in fiction. In clear-eyed...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1555975305

ISBN13:9781555975302

Release Date:June 2009

Publisher:Graywolf Press

Length:120 Pages

Weight:0.32 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 5.9" x 7.0"

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