A Manual of the Art of Fiction

Structure and Style--Style a Matter of Feeling--Style an Absolute Quality--The Twofold Appeal of Language--Concrete Examples--Onomatopoetic Words--Memorable Words--The Patternin...

Fiction a Means of Telling Truth--Fact and Fiction--Truth and Fact--The Search for Truth--The Necessary Triple Process--Different Degrees of Emphasis--The Art of Fiction and the...

Characters Should Be Worth Knowing--The Personal Equation of the Audience--The Universal Appeal of Great Fictitious Characters--Typical Traits--Individual Traits--The Defect of...

Evolution of Background in the History of Painting--The First Stage--The Second Stage--The Third Stage--Similar Evolution of Setting in the History of Fiction: The First Stage--...

The Importance of the Point of View--Two Classes, The Internal and the External--I. Subdivisions of the First Class: 1. The Point of View of the Leading Actor; 2. The Point of V...

Two Methods of Exhibiting the Truth--Every Mind Either Realistic or Romantic--Marion Crawford's Faulty Distinction--A Second Unsatisfactory Distinction--A Third Unsatisfactory D...

Only One Best Way to Construct a Short-Story--Problems of Short-Story Construction--The Initial Position--The Terminal Position--Poe's Analysis of "The Raven"--Analysis of "Lige...

Essential and Contributory Features--Art Distinguishes Between the Two by Emphasis--Many Technical Devices: 1. Emphasis by Terminal Position; 2. Emphasis by Initial Position; 3....

Narrative a Simplification of Life--Unity in Narrative--A Definite Objective Point--Construction, Analytic and Synthetic--The Importance of Structure--Elementary Narrative--Posi...

Novel, Novelette, and Short-Story--The Novel and the Novelette--The Short-Story a Distinct Type--The Dictum of Poe--The Formula of Brander Matthews--Definition of the Short-Stor...

Transition from Material to Method--The Four Methods of Discourse--1. Argumentation; 2. Exposition; 3. Description; 4. Narration, the Natural Mood of Fiction--Series and Success...

Fiction a Generic Term--Narrative in Verse and Narrative in Prose--Three Moods of Fiction: I. The Epic Mood--II. The Dramatic Mood: 1. Influence of the Actor; 2. Influence of th...