![]() ![]() The first chapter was good, and I got all excited with the promise of what I thought was ahead. I picked up a few useful bits here and there, but for the most part, I was just confused. Nonfiction for the writer and intended to help develop a deeper, more interesting plot. The Art of series means to restore the art of criticism while illuminating the art of writing. Each book examines a singular, but often assumed or neglected, issue facing the contemporary writer of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry. The Art of Subtext is part of The Art of series, a new line of books by important authors on the craft of writing, edited by Charles Baxter. ![]() Jones, and Lorrie Moore, Baxter explains how fiction writers create those visible and invisible details, how what is displayed evokes what is not displayed. Using an array of examples from Melville and Dostoyevsky to contemporary writers Paula Fox, Edward P. ![]() Charles Baxter inaugurates The Art of, a new series on the craft of writing, with the wit and intelligence he brought to his celebrated book Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction.įiction writer and essayist Charles Baxter's The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot discusses and illustrates the hidden subtextual overtones and undertones in fictional works haunted by the unspoken, the suppressed, and the secreted. ![]()
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