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. Using an array of examples from melville to Dostoevsky and contemporary writers Paula Fox, Edward P Jones and Lorrie Moore, Baxter explains how fictional writers create those visible and invisible details - how what is displayed evokes what is not displayed.

Format/pages: paperback / 120 pages

ISBN: 9781555974732

Publisher: Graywolf Press

Year: 2007