Six Walks in the Fictional Woods |
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Author:
| Eco, Umberto |
Series title: | The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures |
ISBN: | 978-0-674-81051-8 |
Publication Date: | Jul 1998 |
Publisher: | Harvard University Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $32.00 |
Book Description:
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In this exhilarating book, we accompany Eco as he explores the intricacies of fictional form and method. Using examples from fairy tales and Flaubert, Poe and Mickey Spillane, Eco draws us in with a novelist's techniques, making us his collaborators in the creation of his text and in the investigation of some of fiction's most basic mechanisms.
In this exhilarating book, we accompany Eco as he explores the intricacies of fictional form and method. Using examples from fairy tales and Flaubert, Poe and Mickey Spillane, Eco draws us in with a novelist's techniques, making us his collaborators in the creation of his text and in the investigation of some of fiction's most basic mechanisms.