Home Literary Studies Preface: Apt Words
Chapter
Licensed
Unlicensed Requires Authentication

Preface: Apt Words

  • Robert Solé and Catherine Temerson
View more publications by Columbia University Press
To Publisher Page
The Novelist’s Lexicon
This chapter is in the book The Novelist’s Lexicon

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Foreword: The Courage of Words xi
  4. Preface: Apt Words xiii
  5. A
  6. Adumbrated 1
  7. Aletherature 2
  8. Amen 4
  9. Anonymity 4
  10. Autofiction 5
  11. Available 7
  12. Awareness of Banality 8
  13. B
  14. Balagan 10
  15. The Banana Republic of Letters 11
  16. Beauty 12
  17. Bildungsroman 13
  18. Breton 14
  19. Bricoleur 15
  20. C
  21. Catin 17
  22. Chaff 18
  23. Cinderella 19
  24. Creature 23
  25. Cunnilingus 24
  26. D
  27. Disappointment 26
  28. Discipline 28
  29. Dream 29
  30. E
  31. Échapée 31
  32. Evolution 32
  33. F
  34. Faire 34
  35. Fille 35
  36. Furniture 37
  37. H
  38. Happiness 38
  39. Harmony and Reconciliation 40
  40. Hedonism 42
  41. Heretic 43
  42. Honesty 45
  43. I
  44. “I” 46
  45. Identities 47
  46. Wise Imagination 49
  47. India 49
  48. Insomnia 50
  49. Island 53
  50. L
  51. To Last 55
  52. Laughter 56
  53. Lies 58
  54. Loyalty 63
  55. M
  56. Mariquita 65
  57. The Meaning of a Word 67
  58. The Strolling Mirror 67
  59. N
  60. No 70
  61. No Why 73
  62. Nomad 74
  63. The Novel as Web 76
  64. Novel/Life 77
  65. What Is the Novel? 78
  66. Novice 80
  67. P
  68. Paralipomena 81
  69. Pathos 83
  70. Phantom 84
  71. Physical 85
  72. Plague 87
  73. (The) Present 87
  74. R
  75. “Real” 90
  76. The Real 91
  77. (Holy) Russia 93
  78. S
  79. A Successful Sentence 95
  80. Shadow 96
  81. Signed D.C. 98
  82. Silence 99
  83. The Depopulated Skies 100
  84. Suffering 102
  85. T
  86. Terroir 104
  87. U
  88. Un- 106
  89. Unknowable 108
  90. The Unreal 109
  91. W
  92. Waiting/Attention 112
  93. Woman 113
  94. The Word Word 114
  95. “Words, Words, Words” 116
  96. Work 117
  97. Y
  98. Yusuf 120
  99. Z
  100. Zorby 122
  101. Contributors 125
  102. Index 143
  103. Backmatter 147
https://doi.org/10.7312/vill15080-001

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Foreword: The Courage of Words xi
  4. Preface: Apt Words xiii
  5. A
  6. Adumbrated 1
  7. Aletherature 2
  8. Amen 4
  9. Anonymity 4
  10. Autofiction 5
  11. Available 7
  12. Awareness of Banality 8
  13. B
  14. Balagan 10
  15. The Banana Republic of Letters 11
  16. Beauty 12
  17. Bildungsroman 13
  18. Breton 14
  19. Bricoleur 15
  20. C
  21. Catin 17
  22. Chaff 18
  23. Cinderella 19
  24. Creature 23
  25. Cunnilingus 24
  26. D
  27. Disappointment 26
  28. Discipline 28
  29. Dream 29
  30. E
  31. Échapée 31
  32. Evolution 32
  33. F
  34. Faire 34
  35. Fille 35
  36. Furniture 37
  37. H
  38. Happiness 38
  39. Harmony and Reconciliation 40
  40. Hedonism 42
  41. Heretic 43
  42. Honesty 45
  43. I
  44. “I” 46
  45. Identities 47
  46. Wise Imagination 49
  47. India 49
  48. Insomnia 50
  49. Island 53
  50. L
  51. To Last 55
  52. Laughter 56
  53. Lies 58
  54. Loyalty 63
  55. M
  56. Mariquita 65
  57. The Meaning of a Word 67
  58. The Strolling Mirror 67
  59. N
  60. No 70
  61. No Why 73
  62. Nomad 74
  63. The Novel as Web 76
  64. Novel/Life 77
  65. What Is the Novel? 78
  66. Novice 80
  67. P
  68. Paralipomena 81
  69. Pathos 83
  70. Phantom 84
  71. Physical 85
  72. Plague 87
  73. (The) Present 87
  74. R
  75. “Real” 90
  76. The Real 91
  77. (Holy) Russia 93
  78. S
  79. A Successful Sentence 95
  80. Shadow 96
  81. Signed D.C. 98
  82. Silence 99
  83. The Depopulated Skies 100
  84. Suffering 102
  85. T
  86. Terroir 104
  87. U
  88. Un- 106
  89. Unknowable 108
  90. The Unreal 109
  91. W
  92. Waiting/Attention 112
  93. Woman 113
  94. The Word Word 114
  95. “Words, Words, Words” 116
  96. Work 117
  97. Y
  98. Yusuf 120
  99. Z
  100. Zorby 122
  101. Contributors 125
  102. Index 143
  103. Backmatter 147
Sign up now to receive a 20% welcome discount
Institutional Access
How does access work?
Have an idea on how to improve our website?
Please write us.
© 2025 De Gruyter Brill
Downloaded on 9.9.2025 from https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.7312/vill15080-001/html
Scroll to top button