ATDATD Prep

[Otto]

My standard answer is John Barth's "The Friday Book", but I'd
recommend David Lodge's "The Art of Fiction" too (104 used & new
available from $1.94 at amazon):

"From Publishers Weekly
British novelist Lodge ( Paradise News ) retired in 1987 from
Birmingham University's English faculty and swore off academic prose,
but in 1991 he consented to contribute a series of columns "of
interest to a more general reading public" to the London Independent .
Each of these 50 essays begins with a brief fiction passage, addressed
and interpreted topically by Lodge, who discusses point of view, the
unreliable narrator, "the uncanny," "weather" and other aspects of
writing."
www.amazon.com

2006/11/4, Keith McMullen <keithsz at mac.com>:
> I didn't even take much Lit. in college so am uneducated about
> literary criticism. I'm currently reading Eco's _The Limits of
> Interpretation_ which I find much more entertaining than his novels.
> Here he strikes a nice balance between the reality of the text and
> the imagination of the reader. Are there other sources that are along
> those lines? Ones that would be comprehensible to a laygeezer? Ones
> that are entertaining as well as informative?
>