Margaret Lucke highlights the essential elements of a short story, its characters, conflict, plot, setting, and narrative voice and explains how each contributes to the success of the story. The text also includes a number of practice exercises.
This book takes the following question as its starting point: What are some of the crucial things the reader must do in order to make sense of a literary narrative? The book is a study of the texture of narrative fiction, using stylistics, corpus linguistic principles (especiall…
This book takes the following question as its starting point: What are some of the crucial things the reader must do in order to make sense of a literary narrative? The book is a study of the texture of narrative fiction, using stylistics, corpus linguistic principles (especiall…
