Tracklist

  • 1
    Artful Reading and Everyday Reading
  • 2
    Authors, Real and Implied
  • 3
    Narrators — Their Voices and Their Visions
  • 4
    Characters — Beyond Round and Flat
  • 5
    Descriptions — People, Places, and Things
  • 6
    Minimalists to Maximalists to Lyricists
  • 7
    Explosive Devices — Irony and Ambiguity
  • 8
    Reading for the Plot — Five Simple Words
  • 9
    Master Plots — The Stranger and the Journey
  • 10
    The Game Is Afoot — Sherlock Holmes
  • 11
    The Plot Thickens — Scott and Brontë
  • 12
    The Plot Vanishes — Faulkner and Woolf
  • 13
    Chapters, Patterns, and Rhythms
  • 14
    Scene and Summary, Showing and Telling
  • 15
    Subtexts, Motives, and Secrets
  • 16
    Dialogue — The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
  • 17
    Metafiction — Fiction About Fiction
  • 18
    Adaptation — From Fiction to Film
  • 19
    Realism Times Four
  • 20
    Thumbs Up? — Interpretation and Evaluation
  • 21
    A Long Short Story — "Runaway"
  • 22
    A Classic Novel — The Age of Innocence
  • 23
    A Baggy Monster — War and Peace
  • 24
    Picking Up the Tools

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