02890nam a22004575i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020003700100024003500137050001300172072001400185072002300199072001300222100009200235245008400327250001800411264007900429300003300508336002600541337002600567338003600593347002400629505037700653520104301030650002302073650002302096650002202119650002302141650002302164650002202187710003402209773002602243776003602269776003602305856004602341912001402387912001402401999001702415978-3-031-52712-8DE-He21320251030111804.0cr nn 008mamaa240403s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830315271289978-3-031-52712-87 a10.1007/978-3-031-52712-82doi 4aPN1-6790 7aD2bicssc 7aLIT0000002bisacsh 7aD2thema1 aHoward-Snyder, Frances.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut97470410aCause and Effect in Fictionh[electronic resource] /cby Frances Howard-Snyder.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aXI, 103 p.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda0 a1. Cause and Effect in Fiction: An Introduction -- 2. Causation and Causation in Fiction -- 3. Cause and Effect in Plot -- 4. Cause and Effect in Character -- 5. Cause and Effect in Setting -- 6. Cause and Effect in Dialogue -- 7. Cause and Effect in Theme -- 8. Cause and Effect, Counterfactuals, and the Role of Fiction in our Psychic Lives -- 9. Objections and Replies.  aThis book explores and defends George Saunders’ causal thesis that successful stories are those that establish causation well. The book includes an in-depth discussion of causation’s role in several different key craft elements of fiction writing and examines different theories of causation and their implications for causation in fiction. Other discussions include the role of causation in building suspense, character and causation, causation in dialogue and connections between fiction and counterfactuals (or hypotheticals). The book also considers a number of objections to the causal thesis and offers a reply. Frances Howard-Snyder is a Philosophy Professor at Western Washington University and has co-authored a logic textbook. She has also published numerous articles on ethics and philosophy of religion. She has an MFA from the Rainier Writing Workshop, and has published stories in The Magnolia Review, Silver Pen, Halfway Down the Stairs, as well as other publications. For more information, see franceshowardsnyder.com. 0aLiterature.965108 0aPhilosophy.966189 0aCreative writing.14aLiterature.96510824aPhilosophy.96618924aCreative Writing.2 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303152711108iPrinted edition:z978303152713540uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-52712-8  aZDB-2-LCM  aZDB-2-SXL  c58933d58933