Studying the Novel

by Jeremy Hawthorn and jeremy-hawthorn

Book Overview

How do literary critics distinguish between "story" and "plot," between a symbol and an image, or between "tone" and "mood"? How do we define "realism," "modernism," and "postmodernism"? What do narrative theorists mean by "frequency" and "distance"? In the revised, expanded and updated fifth edition of this standard introduction to the novel, these questions and many others are answered in a way that is readable and entertaining without being simplistic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0340887877
• ISBN13: 9780340887875
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Hodder Education Publishers
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.1" x 6.1"