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The Closers is the 15th novel by American crime author Michael Connelly, [1] and the eleventh featuring the Los Angeles detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch.This novel features a return to an omniscient third-person style narration after the previous two, set during Bosch's retirement (Lost Light and The Narrows) were narrated in from a first-person perspective.
In literary criticism, close reading is the careful, sustained interpretation of a brief passage of a text. A close reading emphasizes the single and the particular over the general, via close attention to individual words, the syntax, the order in which the sentences unfold ideas, as well as formal structures.
[5] Beryl Bainbridge, Richard Adams, Ronald Harwood, and John Bayley also spoke positively of the work, while philosopher Roger Scruton described it as a "brilliant summary of story-telling". [6] Others have dismissed the book on grounds that Booker is too rigid in fitting works of art to the plot types above.
ABC of Reading [1] is a book by the 20th-century Imagist poet Ezra Pound published in 1934. In it, Pound sets out an approach by which one may come to appreciate and understand literature (focusing primarily on poetry). Despite its title the text can be considered as a guide to writing poetry.
At some point, a plot summary is likely to be edited by someone else; editors do not own their golden prose. At the same time, changes should be closely monitored. Well-meaning editors may be unaware of prior discussions or conventions regarding plot summary length. Plot bloat is thus a serious problem.
Literature can be described as all of the following: Communication – activity of conveying information. Communication requires a sender, a message, and an intended recipient, although the receiver need not be present or aware of the sender's intent to communicate at the time of communication; thus communication can occur across vast distances in time and space.
Subversion and containment is a concept in literary studies introduced by Stephen Greenblatt in his 1988 essay "Invisible Bullets". [1] It has subsequently become a much-used concept in new historicist and cultural materialist approaches to textual analysis.
Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote that the novel "...creates a scarily high-tech brand of intrigue. Mr. Connelly is a spare, expeditious storyteller with a natural talent for generating forward momentum.” [1] Publishers Weekly wrote, "Connelly’s plotting is shrink-wrap tight, his characters… are smartly drawn.