The Technique of Fiction Writing
by Robert Saunders Dowst
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About this eBook
- Author
- Dowst, Robert Saunders, 1890-1959
- Credits
- Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections
- Subject
- Fiction -- Technique
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 32092
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32092
- Release Date
- April 22, 2010
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.TABLE OF CONTENTS
- 4.INTRODUCTION
- 5.CHAPTER I THE WRITER HIMSELF
- 6.CHAPTER II THE CHOICE OF MATTER
- 7.CHAPTER III CONCEPTIVE TECHNIQUE: STORY TYPES
- 8.CHAPTER IV CONCEPTIVE TECHNIQUE: PLOT AND SITUATION
- 9.CHAPTER V CONSTRUCTIVE TECHNIQUE OF NARRATION [C] — ORDER OF EVENTS — PREPARATION — PROPORTION — GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS
- 10.CHAPTER VI EXECUTIVE TECHNIQUE OF NARRATION — MODE OF NARRATION — STYLE
- 11.CHAPTER VII EXECUTIVE TECHNIQUE OF NARRATION — METHOD — SUSPENSE — EMPHASIS AND SUPPRESSION — TRANSITION — BLENDING OF ELEMENTS
- 12.CHAPTER VIII DESCRIPTION — DESCRIPTION OF PERSONS — DESCRIPTION OF SETTING
- 13.CHAPTER IX SPEECH
- 14.CHAPTER X PORTRAYAL OF CHARACTER — CHARACTERIZATION BY SPEECH — CHARACTERIZATION BY STATEMENT — CHARACTERIZATION BY ACTION
- 15.CHAPTER XI ATMOSPHERE
- 16.CHAPTER XII THE SHORT STORY
- 17.CHAPTER XIII THE NOVEL
- 18.CHAPTER XIV CONCLUSION
- 19.APPENDIX
- 20.APPENDIX A SUGGESTIONS FOR THE STUDENT
- 21.APPENDIX B SUGGESTIONS FOR TEACHERS
- 22.APPENDIX C TO WRITE A STORY — CONCEPTIVE TECHNIQUE — CONSTRUCTIVE TECHNIQUE — EXECUTIVE TECHNIQUE
- 23.INDEX
- 24.FOOTNOTES: — Transcriber's Note:
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