On 2009-12-31 E. Lorge, Earth Human wrote: Unfortunately, I was never able to take very many literature classes in university,
and as a result, I have always felt that Literature was my Achilles Heel. Well, recently I have began writing some fiction of my own and I was looking for a concise, read-able pocket guide to literary concepts. This book definitely delivers all that.
Written originally as series of articles for The Independent, Lodge begins each chapter with an excerpt from a novel to illustrate a concept, which he then discusses for a few pages. For example: in Chapter 10, the topic is ´Interior Monologue´, for which he uses Joyce´s ´Ulysses´. His analysis is never too dry or academic, yet it is very erudite.
David Lodge is already a very engaging writer of fiction and this guide is no different. . And summed up by saying Exactly What I Have Been Looking For. Currently The Art of Fiction: Illustrated from Classic and Modern Texts has an overall rating of 8 over 10.
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