Henry James at the outset of the twentieth century brought to a triumphant climax his sustained practice of fiction with three stately novels that are marvels of prolonged design and elaborate sensibility — "The Wings of the Dove" (1902), "The Ambassadors" (1903), and "The Golden Bowl" (1904).
Naipaul spoke about how his practice of fiction, which had initially "seemed to me to be the noblest thing", changed when he saw that the great novels he admired came out of stable, hermetic 19th-century worlds that bore little relation to his own, which was "full of flight and unfinished experience".
Jen wonders how a person raised in an "interdependent context" — that is to say, as the daughter of two Chinese immigrants — came to practice the art of fiction, which she calls the "sanctuary of the independent self".
In the Saturday Review, the critic Gerald Bullett unfavorably compared Wharton's latest, "A Mother's Recompense," with "Mrs. Dalloway," calling Woolf "a brilliant experimentalist," while Wharton was "content to practice the craft of fiction without attempting to enlarge its technical scope".
In some ways, the mode of fiction McCarthy and Morrison practice is less historical than pre-historical.
Erotic fan fiction and shipping the practice of supporting a relationship between fictional characters are an inevitable byproduct of pop-culture franchises beloved by the internet.
Consolidated accounts are in practice little better than a work of fiction when it comes to finding out what happens within a multinational company because all the transactions between companies within the group are removed from view in those accounts.
The first and better half of the mini-series is suffused with Mike's grief and desperation over the loss of his muse; his eagerness to believe in ghosts, to submerge himself in what could be delusions, is an extreme version of the suspension of disbelief practiced by all readers and writers of fiction.
Types of fiction no longer practiced, since their real-life referents no longer exist, include the colonial novel such as E.M. Forster's Passage to India (1924), Henri Fauconnier's Malaisie (1930), and the African sequence of Joyce Cary and space fantasy like H.G. Wells's First Men in the Moon (1901).
This has comprised email and postal mailing of FiCTION flyers to practices and practitioners by Comprehensive Local Research Networks CLRNN) and some Primary Care Research Networks (PCRN), and their equivalents in Wales and Scotland.
I had abandoned practicing architecture for something that felt more compelling and immediately gratifying: writing a work of fiction about a woman who practiced architecture.
