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

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 prose, Silber elucidates a tricky but vital aspect of the art of fiction.

Author: Joan Silber
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 06/23/2009
Series: Art Of…
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.3lbs
Size: 6.99h x 5.86w x 0.37d
ISBN: 9781555975302
Language: English