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

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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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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ling Chen
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/18
TI  - The “Retreat” of the Author and the “Advance” of the Reader: Revisiting The Craft of Fiction by Percy Lubbock
BT  - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Inter-cultural Communication (ICELAIC 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 280
EP  - 284
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201215.345
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