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Rand, Ayn.

The art of fiction : a guide for writers and readers / Ayn Rand ; edited by Tore Boeckmann ; introduction by Leonard Peikoff.

New York : Plume, ©2000.

xii, 180 pages ; 21 cm

Guide for writers and readers. How a writer combines abstract ideas and concrete action to achieve a unity of theme, plot, characterization and style.

Fiction -- Authorship.

Boeckmann, Tore.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Leonard Peikoff -- Writing and the Subconscious -- Literature as an Art Form -- Theme and Plot -- The Plot-Theme -- The Climax -- How to Develop a Plot Ability -- Concretize Your Abstractions -- Think in Terms of Conflict -- Tap Your Emotions -- Characterization -- Style I: Depictions of Love -- from Atlas Shrugged / Ayn Rand -- from Notre-Dame de Paris / Victor Hugo -- from Of Time and the River / Thomas Wolfe -- from Arrowsmith / Sinclair Lewis -- from Star Money / Kathleen Winsor -- from By Love Possessed / James Gould Cozzens -- Style II: Descriptions of Nature and of New York -- from Atlas Shrugged / Ayn Rand -- from Seven Gothic Tales / Isak Dinesen -- from The Fountainhead / Ayn Rand -- from Atlas Shrugged / Ayn Rand -- from One Lonely Night / Mickey Spillane -- from The Web and the Rock / Thomas Wolfe -- Naturalistic Description -- Analysis of "A Letter on Style" / Sinclair Lewis -- Particular Issues of Style -- Narrative versus Dramatization -- Exposition -- Flashbacks -- Transitions -- Metaphors -- Descriptions -- Dialogue -- Slang -- Obscenities -- Foreign Words -- Journalistic References -- Special Forms of Literature -- Humor -- Fantasy -- Symbolism -- Tragedy and the Projection of Negatives.

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