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Edin - How to Read a Novel 

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How to Read a Novel
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Overview

Duration

4 weeks

Total fee

₹7,699

Mode of learning

Online

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Credential

Certificate

How to Read a Novel
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Highlights

  • Duration 4 weeks
  • Weekly study 2 hours
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How to Read a Novel
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Course details

More about this course
  • What makes a great novel? How is a novel woven together? How can we best appreciate works of fiction?
  • Answer these questions and more with this course from The University of Edinburgh and the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
  • On the course you'll discover four of the main building blocks of modern fiction: plot, characterization, dialogue, and setting using examples from a range of texts including the four novels shortlisted for the 2020 James Tait Black fiction prize. You'll also explore the formal strategies authors use, how they came to be, and how they affect us as readers.

How to Read a Novel
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Curriculum

Plot

Scene setting

Framed narratives and unreliable narrators

Plotting in Edna O'Brien's Girl

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Characterisation

Introduction to character

Interiority

Characterisation in Sarah Hall's Sudden Traveller

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Dialogue

Introduction to dialogue

Dialect

Dialogue in Helon Habila's Travellers

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Setting

Introduction to setting

Space

Setting in Ducks, Newburyport

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