How to read novels like a professor / Thomas C. Foster.

Author: Foster, Thomas C.

Edition: 1st ed.

Publisher: New York : Harper Paperbacks, c2008.

ISBN: 9780061340406 (pbk.)
0061340405 (pbk.)

Description: xviii, 312 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject: Fiction History and criticism.
Books and reading.

Contents: Novel possibilities, or all animals aren't pigs? -- Pickup lines and open(ing) seductions or, why novels have first pages -- You can't breathe where the air is clear -- Who's in charge here? -- Never trust a narrator with a speaking part -- A still, small voice (or a great, galumphing one) -- Men (and women) made out of words, or, My pip ain't like your pip -- When very bad people happen to good novels -- Wrinkles in time, or, Chapters just might matter -- Everywhere is just one place -- Clarissa's flowers -- Met-him-pike-hoses -- Life sentences -- Drowning in the stream of consciousness -- The light on Daisy's dock -- Fiction about fiction -- Source codes and recycle bins -- Improbabilities : foundlings and magi, colonels and boy wizards -- What's the big idea, or even the small one? -- Who broke my novel? -- Untidy endings -- History in the novel/the novel in history -- Conspiracy theory.