Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Inter-cultural Communication (ICELAIC 2020)

The “Retreat” of the Author and the “Advance” of the Reader: Revisiting The Craft of Fiction by Percy Lubbock

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Ling Chen
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Ling Chen
Available Online 18 December 2020.
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10.2991/assehr.k.201215.345How to use a DOI?
Keywords
author, work, reader, drama, picture
Abstract

Percy Lubbock discusses the relationship among author, works and readers in The Craft of Fiction. He advocates that the author should not intervene in the work, and can adopt the first-person narrative and the third-person narrative to avoid the direct exposure of the author in the text. However, readers need more exposure to the works, selectively mobilize their own experience and imagination, and carry out creative reading. The paper holds that the way that readers and authors advance and retreat fully explains Lubbock’s fiction aesthetics.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Inter-cultural Communication (ICELAIC 2020)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
18 December 2020
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978-94-6239-305-9
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2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.201215.345How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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