A Howe, Irving 1920- creator Howe, Nicholas. text nyu New York Harcourt Brace c1994 1994 1st ed. monographic eng

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ix, 364 p. ; 22 cm. Introduction / Nicholas Howe -- Anecdote and Storyteller -- Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Woolf --Characters: Are They Like People? -- How Are Characters Conceived? Biography and Identity. Characters Out of Characters. The Uses of Opacity. Getting Out of Hand. Character Goes, but Also Remains -- Five Instances of Characterization. Fielding: Characters of Order. Sterne: Disorders of Character. George Eliot: Consciousness and Character. Gissing: Technique and Sensibility. Lawrence: Another Language Almost -- The Common Reader -- Criticism of Fiction. What Can We Do with Chekhov? Gogol's Overcoat, Eichenbaum's Stitching. On "Gratuitous Details" --Dickens: Three Notes. Absolute Goodness and the Limits of Fiction. Impresario of Minor Characters. Becoming Dostoevsky -- Farce and Fiction -- History and the Novel: Variations on a Theme -- Kipling's Kim: Ecstasies -- Naturalism and Taste -- Novels of Academic Life -- Obscurity in the Novel. Punitive Novels. Walter Scott: Falling Out of the Canon. The Self in Literature. Style and the Novel: Some Preliminary Paragraphs -- Tolstoy: Five Comments. Did Anna Have to Die? The Russian Fly. The Unheroic Hero of War and Peace. The Old Magician. The Famous Details -- Tone in Fiction. Irving Howe ; edited and introduced by Nicholas Howe. Includes index. Criticism Literature History and criticism 814.54 HOC 0151199493 TOC 940125 20170423195634.0 406143 eng