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The Art of Creating Fiction

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  • © 1991

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Authors:
  1. Zulfikar Ghose

    1. University of Texas, Austin, USA

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Theory

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Inescapable Lesson of the Master

      • Zulfikar Ghose
      Pages 3-19

    3. Things That Appear

      • Zulfikar Ghose
      Pages 20-32

    4. A Special Language

      • Zulfikar Ghose
      Pages 33-49

    5. The Human Experience

      • Zulfikar Ghose
      Pages 50-62

  3. & Practice

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63
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    2. Towards Perfection

      • Zulfikar Ghose
      Pages 65-88

    3. Imperfection

      • Zulfikar Ghose
      Pages 89-125

    4. Perfection

      • Zulfikar Ghose
      Pages 126-142

  4. Coda

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143
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    2. Answers to your Questions

      • Zulfikar Ghose
      Pages 145-156

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 157-159
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About this book

Anyone wishing to write short stories and novels will learn from The Art of Creating Fiction how some eminent writers, such as William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf, created their art. By giving the new writer an understanding of fiction as it has been produced by the great novelists, The Art of Creating Fiction serves a double purpose: it is an implicit manual on how to write fiction and at the same time a work that provokes, challenges and inspires the new writer to cultivate an ambition for greatness.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Texas, Austin, USA

    Zulfikar Ghose

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Art of Creating Fiction

  • Authors: Zulfikar Ghose

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11945-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1991

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-53678-0Published: 17 September 1991

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-11945-5Published: 27 July 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 159

  • Topics: Literary Theory

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