How to Read Novels Like a Professor
Subtitle: A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Published: July 1, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780061340406
Copyright date: 2008
Subjects: Books & Reading; General; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism
Table of contents: label: Preface
title: Novel possibilities, or All Animals Aren't Pigs?
pagenum: xiii; label: Introduction
title: Once Upon a Time: A short, Chaotic, and Entirely Idiosyncratic History of the Novel
pagenum: 1; label: 1
title: Pickup Lines and Open(ing) Seductions, or Why Novels Have First Pages
pagenum: 21; label: 2
title: You Can't Breathe Where the Air Is Clear
pagenum: 37; label: 3
title: Who's in Charge Here
pagenum: 45; label: 4
title: Never Trust a Narrator with a Speaking Part
pagenum: 56; label: 5
title: A Still, Small Voice (or a Great, Galumphing One)
pagenum: 67; label: 6
title: Men (and Women) Made out of Words, or My Pip Ain't Like Your Pip
pagenum: 80; label: 7
title: When Very bad people Happen to Good Novels
pagenum: 89; label: 8
title: Wrinkles in Time, or Chapters Just Might Matter
pagenum: 99; label: 9
title: Everywhere Is Just One Place
pagenum: 109; label: 10
title: Clarissa's Flowers
pagenum: 117; label: 11
title: Met-him=pike-hoses
pagenum: 131; label: 12
title: Life Sentences
pagenum: 145; label: 13
title: Drowning in the Stream of Consciousness
pagenum: 160; label: 14
title: The Light on Daisy's Dock
pagenum: 172; label: 15
title: Fiction About Fiction
pagenum: 182; label: 16
title: Source Codes and Recycle Bins
pagenum: 197; label: Interlude
title: Read with Your Ears
pagenum: 213; label: 17
title: Improbabilities: Foundlings and Magi, Colonels and Boy Wizards
pagenum: 227; label: 18
title: What's the Big Idea - or Even the Small One?
pagenum: 239; label: 19
title: Who Broke My Novel?
pagenum: 250; label: 20
title: Untidy Endings
pagenum: 264; label: 21
title: History in the Novel/The Novel in History
pagenum: 279; label: 22
title: Conspiracy Theory
pagenum: 291; label: Conclusion
title: The Never-Ending Journey
pagenum: 303; label: Reading list
title: Criticism of the Novel
pagenum: 309