Cause and effect in fiction / Frances Howard-Snyder.

Author
Howard-Snyder, Frances [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland, [2024]
Description
xi, 103 pages ; 22 cm.

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    "This book explores and defends George Saunders' causal thesis that successful stories are those that establish causation well. The book includes an in-depth discussion of causation's role in several different key craft elements of fiction writing and examines different theories of causation and their implications for causation in fiction. Other discussions include the role of causation in building suspense, character and causation, causation in dialogue and connections between fiction and counterfactuals (or hypotheticals). The book also considers a number of objections to the causal thesis and offers a reply." -- Provided by publisher.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    ISBN
    • 3031527119 (hardcover)
    • 9783031527111 (hardcover)
    OCLC
    1415748926
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