The Art of Time in Fiction: As Long as It Takes
The Art of Time in Fiction: As Long as It Takes (Art of…) by Joan Silber
English | June 23, 2009 | ISBN: 1555975305, 9781644451977 | True EPUB | 120 pages | 1.9 MB
English | June 23, 2009 | ISBN: 1555975305, 9781644451977 | True EPUB | 120 pages | 1.9 MB
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.