The Art Of Subtext by Charles Baxter

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The Art Of Subtext by Charles Baxter

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 to Dostoevsky and contemporary writers Paula Fox, Edward P Jones and Lorrie Moore, Baxter explains how fictional writers create those visible and invisible details - how what is displayed evokes what is not displayed.

Charles Baxter is the author of the novels The Feast of Love (nominated for the National Book Award), The Soul Thief, Saul and Patsy, Shadow Play, and First Light, and the story collections Gryphon, Believers, A Relative Stranger, Through the Safety Net, and Harmony of the World. The stories Bravery and Charity, which appear in There's Something I Want You to Do, were included in Best American Short Stories. He has won the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. Baxter lives in Minneapolis and teaches at the University of Minnesota and in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.

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ISBN 13 9781555974732
ISBN 10 1555974732
Title The Art Of Subtext
Author Charles Baxter
Series Art Of Ser
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Graywolf Press,U.S.
Year published 2007-07-24
Number of pages 120
Prizes Winner of Minnesota Book Award (Nonfiction) 2008
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