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

by Joan Silber

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555975305
• ISBN13: 9781555975302
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Graywolf Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 7.0"