To Show and to Tell
The Craft of Literary Nonfiction
New York : Free Press, 2013.
Format: Book
Edition: First Free Press trade paperback edition.
Description: xi, 225 pages ; 22 cm
A long-awaited new book on personal writing from Lopate--the celebrated essayist and the director of Columbia University's nonfiction program. He provides the nuts and bolts, offering a refreshing new master class on the craft of the personal narrative, including the personal essay and memoir.
Contents:
I. The craft of personal narrative : The state of nonfiction today -- On the necessity of turning oneself into a character -- Reflection and retrospection : a pedagogic mystery story -- How do you end an essay? -- The uses of contrariety -- Imagination thin and thick -- Facts have implications : or, is nonfiction really fiction? -- On the ethics of writing about others -- Modesty and assertion -- On writers' journals -- The essay : exploration or argument? -- The made-up self : on the difficulty of turning oneself into a character -- Research and personal writing -- The lyric essay -- The personal essay in the age of Facebook -- II. Studies of practitioners : Lamb's Essays of Elia -- Hazlitt on hating -- How I became an Emersonian -- Teaching James Baldwin -- Edward Hoagland : the dean of American essayists -- The memoir and its critics : two takes.
Subjects:
Creative nonfiction -- Authorship.
Autobiography -- Authorship.
Essay -- Authorship.
Prose literature -- Authorship.
Autobiography -- Authorship.
Essay -- Authorship.
Prose literature -- Authorship.
Nichtfiktionale Prosa.
Autorschaft.
Autobiografie.
Kreativt skrivande.
Presentationsteknik.
Skriftlig framställning.
Tekniskt skrivande.
Creative nonfiction -- Authorship.
Autobiography -- Authorship.
Essay -- Authorship.
Prose literature -- Authorship.
Autobiography -- Authorship.
Essay -- Authorship.
Prose literature -- Authorship.
Nichtfiktionale Prosa.
Autorschaft.
Autobiografie.
Kreativt skrivande.
Presentationsteknik.
Skriftlig framställning.
Tekniskt skrivande.
ISBN:
9781451696325
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
LITERATURE Writing Lop | Cooper (Forest Acres) | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references.