| Description |
472 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Before we get started / Bret Lott -- The girl I was, the woman I have become: fiction's reminiscent narrators / Ellen Lesser -- From long shots to x-rays: distance and point of view in fiction / David Jauss -- Breaking the "rules" of story structure / Diane Lefer -- Notes of novel structure / Douglas Glover -- Wake up and go to sleep: dreams and writing fiction / Philip Graham -- Keeping open the wounds of possibility: the marvelous, the uncanny, and the fantastic in fiction / Christopher Noël -- How do we mean what we do not say: the uses of omission in fiction / Victoria Redel -- Multi-culti literati: or, ways of writing fiction beyond "PC" / Xu Xi -- The textures of fiction: an inquiry / François Camoin -- Showing and telling / Laurie Alberts -- Painful howls from places that undoubtedly exist: a primer of deceit / Robin Hemley -- The fictional "I" in nonfiction / Phyllis Barber -- The meandering river: an overview of the subgenres of creative nonfiction / Sue William Silverman -- "I recognize thy glory": on the American nature essay and lyric poetry / Sydney Lea -- Poetic technique in nonfiction writing / Cynthia Huntington -- Collaborating with chaos: not knowing and the creative process / Jack Myers -- Staking the claim to the title / Nance Van Winckel -- On beginnings / Mary Ruefle -- Souls on ice / Mark Doty -- Roots in our throats: a case for using etymology / Natasha Sajé -- Mind the gap / Betsy Sholl -- Towards a poetics of pull-and-release: some thoughts on silence in poems / Leslie Ullman -- The word overflown by stars: saying the unsayable / Richard Jackson -- The poem, as and of address / Ralph Angel -- The changing other / William Olsen -- Incidental music: the grotesque, the romantic, and the retrenched / Roger Weingarten -- Striking the wrong hours: poetry and time / Nancy Eimers -- Notes on notes, /: punctuation and poetry / Robin Behn -- On voice and revision / Mark Cox -- The writer as revisionary / Clare Rossini -- "If you have to be sure don't write": poetry and self-doubt / David Wojahn |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-449) and index |
| Subject |
English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States.
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Creative writing (Higher education) -- United States.
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Fiction -- Authorship -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States.
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Poetry -- Authorship -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States.
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| Author |
Jauss, David.
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Vermont College of Fine Arts.
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| LC no. |
2008034582 |
| ISBN |
9781582975405 paperback alkaline paper |
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158297540X paperback alkaline paper |
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