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Narrative exposition, now often simply exposition, is the insertion of background information within a story or narrative.This information can be about the setting, characters' backstories, prior plot events, historical context, etc. [1] In literature, exposition appears in the form of expository writing embedded within the narrative.
Hans Christian Andersen, "The Fir-Tree"; Truman Capote, "A Christmas Memory" (published in Mademoiselle); John Cheever, "Christmas is a Sad Season for the Poor"; Agatha Christie, The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
December is always a patchy, quiet month for new books (publishers are focused on their new year schedules) but one stocking-filler treat is Gerald Durrell’s Myself & Other Animals (Viking), a ...
The book's peripheral characters play an important part in the general theme of the book. Life for John's wife, in particular, is lonely and boring. John can't engage with her at any level, her children are mysterious teenagers and she feels isolated. She and her circle of friends measure each other on how rich or how thin they are.
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. Novellas are works of prose fiction longer than a short story but shorter than a novel. Several novellas have been recognized as among the best examples of the literary form. Publishers and literary award societies typically consider a ...
Topics in this chapter are the "narrative time", that is, the approximate time required for the reader to read the novel, and the "telling time", i.e. the period that is covered by the novel. Their ratio, the "narrative pace" (narrative pace = telling time ÷ narrative time) may be changed several times within a novel by the narrator and thus ...
In The New York Times Book Review, critic Robert Towers concluded, "The Dean's December confirms me in the opinion I have held since, nearly 30 years ago, I read The Adventures of Augie March (having, as an impecunious instructor, paid out hard cash for my hardcover copy just off the press): Sentence by sentence, page by page, Saul Bellow is simply the best writer that we have."
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