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040 _aTOC
_beng
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082 _a814.54
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100 1 _aHowe, Irving,
_d1920-
245 1 2 _aA critic's notebook /
_cIrving Howe ; edited and introduced by Nicholas Howe.
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bHarcourt Brace,
_cc1994.
300 _aix, 364 p. ;
_c22 cm.
500 _aIncludes index.
505 0 _aIntroduction / Nicholas Howe -- Anecdote and Storyteller -- Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Woolf --Characters: Are They Like People? -- How Are Characters Conceived? Biography and Identity. Characters Out of Characters. The Uses of Opacity. Getting Out of Hand. Character Goes, but Also Remains -- Five Instances of Characterization. Fielding: Characters of Order. Sterne: Disorders of Character. George Eliot: Consciousness and Character. Gissing: Technique and Sensibility. Lawrence: Another Language Almost -- The Common Reader -- Criticism of Fiction. What Can We Do with Chekhov? Gogol's Overcoat, Eichenbaum's Stitching. On "Gratuitous Details" --Dickens: Three Notes. Absolute Goodness and the Limits of Fiction. Impresario of Minor Characters. Becoming Dostoevsky -- Farce and Fiction -- History and the Novel: Variations on a Theme -- Kipling's Kim: Ecstasies -- Naturalism and Taste -- Novels of Academic Life -- Obscurity in the Novel. Punitive Novels.
505 8 _aWalter Scott: Falling Out of the Canon. The Self in Literature. Style and the Novel: Some Preliminary Paragraphs -- Tolstoy: Five Comments. Did Anna Have to Die? The Russian Fly. The Unheroic Hero of War and Peace. The Old Magician. The Famous Details -- Tone in Fiction.
650 0 _aCriticism.
650 0 _aLiterature
_xHistory and criticism.
700 1 _aHowe, Nicholas.
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