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Burning Down the House : : Essays on Fiction

Baxter, Charles, 1947- Book - 2008 813.509 Ba 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 5 out of 5

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Dysfunctional narratives, or "Mistakes were made" -- On defamiliarization -- Against epiphanies -- Talking forks : fiction and the inner life of objects -- Counterpointed characterization -- Rhyming action -- Maps and legends of Hell : notes on melodrama -- The Donald Barthelme Blues -- Stillness -- Regarding happiness -- Sonya's last speech, or, double voicing: an essay in sixteen sections.

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PUBLISHED
Saint Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press, 2008.
Year Published: 2008
Description: xvii, 233 p. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781555975081
155597256X
1555975089

SUBJECTS
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.