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Artful Reading and Everyday Reading
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Authors, Real and Implied
3.
Narrators — Their Voices and Their Visions
4.
Characters — Beyond Round and Flat
5.
Descriptions — People, Places, and Things
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Minimalists to Maximalists to Lyricists
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Explosive Devices — Irony and Ambiguity
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Reading for the Plot — Five Simple Words
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Master Plots — The Stranger and the Journey
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The Game Is Afoot — Sherlock Holmes
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The Plot Thickens — Scott and Brontë
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The Plot Vanishes — Faulkner and Woolf
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Chapters, Patterns, and Rhythms
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Scene and Summary, Showing and Telling
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Subtexts, Motives, and Secrets
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Dialogue — The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
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Metafiction — Fiction About Fiction
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Adaptation — From Fiction to Film
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Realism Times Four
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Thumbs Up? — Interpretation and Evaluation
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A Long Short Story — "Runaway"
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A Classic Novel — The Age of Innocence
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A Baggy Monster — War and Peace
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Picking Up the Tools
