The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot

BAXTER, Charles

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ISBN 10: 1555974732 ISBN 13: 9781555974732

Published by Graywolf Press, Saint Paul, Minnesota, 2007

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First Graywolf printing. Glossy wrappers. Inscribed to fellow author Nicholas Delbanco and his wife Elena by the author. The craft of fictional writing.

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Title: The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot
Publisher: Graywolf Press, Saint Paul, Minnesota
Publication Date: 2007
ISBN 10: 1555974732
ISBN 13: 9781555974732
Binding: Softcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Fine
Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Charles Baxter inaugurates The Art of, a new series on the craft of writing, with the wit and intelligence he brought to his celebrated book Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction.

Fiction writer and essayist Charles Baxter's The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot discusses and illustrates the hidden subtextual overtones and undertones in fictional works haunted by the unspoken, the suppressed, and the secreted. Using an array of examples from Melville and Dostoyevsky to contemporary writers Paula Fox, Edward P. Jones, and Lorrie Moore, Baxter explains how fiction writers create those visible and invisible details, how what is displayed evokes what is not displayed.

The Art of Subtext is part of The Art of series, a new line of books by important authors on the craft of writing, edited by Charles Baxter. Each book examines a singular, but often assumed or neglected, issue facing the contemporary writer of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry. The Art of series means to restore the art of criticism while illuminating the art of writing.

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CHARLES BAXTER is the author of ten books, including The Feast of Love, a finalist for the National Book Award, and Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction. He teaches at the University of Minnesota and lives in Minneapolis.

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