The practice of writing /
- New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin, 1997, �1996.
- xi, 340 pages ; 20 cm
Originally published: New York, N.Y. : Allen Lane, 1997. Includes index.
Part one : novelists, novels and "the novel" -- The novelist today : still at the crossroads? -- Fact and fiction in the novel : an author's note -- The lives of Graham Greene -- "Lucky Jim" revisited -- Sex, creativity and biography : the young D.H. Lawrence -- Henry Green : a writer's writer's writer -- Joyce's choices -- The maing of "Anthony Burgess" -- What kind of fiction did Nabokov write? a practitioner's view -- Creative writing : can/should it be taught? -- The novel as communication -- Part two : mixed media -- Novel, screenplay, stage play : three ways of telling a story -- Adapting "Nice Work" for television -- Adapting "Martin Chuzzlewit" -- Through the No Entry sign : deconstruction and architecture -- Pinter's "Last to Go" : a structuralist reading -- Playback : extracts from a writer's diary.
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Fiction--History and criticism--Theory, etc. Authorship. Authorship Roman--Histoire et critique--Th�eorie, etc. Roman--Adaptations cin�ematographiques.