Description: In this revised edition, David Madden, Charles Bane and Sean Flory have produced an updated work that is intended for a general readership including writers, teachers, and students who are just being introduced to the genre.
Brief description:
David Madden is the Chair of the SEESOX Steering Committee and Distinguished Friend
of St Antony's College, University of Oxford. A member of the UK Diplomatic Service for 34 years, he
has extensive experience of working in and with countries and places on the brink of break-up (former
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Yugoslavia), those seriously divided (Berlin in the 1970s, Cyprus, Bosnia & Herzegovina after the war),
and those where regional tensions run high (South-Eastern Europe generally). He was successively
British High Commissioner in Cyprus, and Ambassador in Athens before retiring in 2004. He was directly
involved in Yugoslav affairs as Deputy Head of Eastern European Department in the FCO 1984-6,
Deputy Head of Mission in Belgrade 1987-90, (briefly) member of ECMM at its inception, and Political
Adviser to EUFOR 2004-6. His most recent books include Balkan Legacies of The Great War: The Past
Is Never Dead (with Othon Anastasakis and Elizabeth Roberts, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).
Review Quotes: "Madden (creative writing, Louisiana State U.) focuses on more than 50 types and major artistic techniques of the novel throughout its history, providing definitions and discussions and including passages and lists of examples. The text includes a detailed chronology of novels, two bibliographies of articles and books by both novelists and critics, and indexes of types and techniques and of authors and titles. The new edition has been completely updated." --Reference and Research Book News