Curated Fiction

Novel Writing in Theory and Practice

Cameron Hindrum

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9781032635453
• eBook ISBN: 9781040024607
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Creative Writing
• Index: Literature

Curated Fiction presents a new theory and methodology for developing, drafting and refining creative writing. At the intersection of literary studies and creative writing, this book develops a new theory for analysing how novelists use narrative point-of-view to direct readers' trust.

The book defines the parameters and practice of one possible approach to the creative development of a work of long-form fiction. The value underpinning this approach will be drawn from the theories that inform it, such as Irene Kacandes's work on Talk Fiction, Bakhtinian concepts of polyphony and Gerald Prince's concept of the Disnarrated.

Offering critical analyses of existing literary works, such as Waterland and As I Lay Dying, Curated Fiction will afford examination of theory in practice, in differing literary forms and contexts before making practical connections with the craft of writing through the analysis of an original short story, 'Foxes'.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• 1 In Which I Vanish
• 2 Of Ghosts and Things: Waterland as a Narrative Black Hole
• 3 The Nature of the Goods: Absence as Provocation in Graham Swift’s Last Orders
• 4 Strange Blood: The Anti-Language of As I Lay Dying
• 5 The Secret Room: Artifice and Historical Angst in A Room Made of Leaves
• Foxes
• 6 Synthesis: An Analysis of ‘Foxes’
• 7 Curated Fiction in Practice
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index