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Lit from within : contemporary masters on the art and craft of writing
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ISBN: 0821443704 9780821443705 9780821419489 082141948X Year: 2011 Publisher: Athens [Ohio] : Ohio University Press,

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Lit from Within offers creative writers a window into the minds of some of America's most celebrated contemporary authors. Witty, direct, and thought-provoking, these essays offer something to creative writers of all backgrounds and experience. With contributions from fiction writers, poets, and nonfiction writers, this is a collection of unusual breadth and quality. Contributors: Lee K. Abbott, Rick Bass, Claire Bateman, Charles Baxter, Ron Carlson, Billy Collins, Peter Ho Davies, Carl Dennis, Stephen Dunn, Robin Hemley, Tony Hoagland, David Kirby, Maggie Nelson, Francine


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Writing for others, writing for ourselves : telling stories in an age of blogging
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ISBN: 128387542X 1442208694 9781442208698 9781283875424 9780742555341 0742555348 9780742555358 0742555356 Year: 2011 Publisher: Lanham [Md.] : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,

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Using a narrative thread that ties practical advice to his personal experience as a professor, reporter, and blogger, Jerry Lanson fills his book on nonfiction story telling with time-proven techniques to beat writer's block and hone the skills necessary to write well. Writing for Others, Writing for Ourselves provides readers of all ages a practical guide to perfecting their own work. From showing how to frame ideas early to how to gather and choose telling details for story, Lanson shares tips, techniques and lessons that will sharpen and enliven any writer's work.


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The matter of the page : essays in search of ancient and medieval authors
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ISBN: 9780299248246 0299248240 9780299248239 0299248232 1282916424 9786612916427 9781282916425 6612916427 Year: 2011 Publisher: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press,

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Ancient and medieval literary texts often call attention to their existence as physical objects. Shane Butler helps us to understand why. Arguing that writing has always been as much a material struggle as an intellectual one, The Matter of the Page offers timely lessons for the digital age about how creativity works and why literature moves us. Butler begins with some considerations about the materiality of the literary text, both as a process (the draft) and a product (the book), and he traces the curious history of "the page" from scroll to manuscript codex to printed book and beyond. He then offers a series of unforgettable portraits of authors at work: Thucydides struggling to describe his own diseased body; Vergil ready to burn an epic poem he could not finish; Lucretius wrestling with words even as he fights the madness that will drive him to suicide; Cicero mesmerized by the thought of erasing his entire career; Seneca plumbing the depths of the soul in the wax of his tablets; and Dhuoda, who sees the book she writes as a door, a tunnel, a womb. Butler reveals how the work of writing transformed each of these authors into his or her own first reader, and he explains what this metamorphosis teaches us about how we too should read. All Greek and Latin quotations are translated into English and technical matters are carefully explained for general readers, with scholarly details in the notes.


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Writing in knowledge societies
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ISBN: 1602352682 1602352704 1602352712 Year: 2011 Publisher: Fort Collins, Colorado ; Anderson, South Carolina : The WAC Clearinghouse : Parlor Press,

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The editors of Writing in Knowledge Societies provide a thoughtful, carefully constructed collection that addresses the vital roles rhetoric and writing play as knowledge-making practices in diverse knowledge-intensive settings. The essays in this book examine the multiple, subtle, yet consequential ways in which writing is epistemic, articulating the central role of writing in creating, shaping, sharing, and contesting knowledge in a range of human activities in workplaces, civic settings, and higher education. Writing in Knowledge Societies helps us conceptualize the ways in which rhetoric and writing work to organize, (re-)produce, undermine, dominate, marginalize, or contest knowledge-making practices in diverse settings, showing the many ways in which rhetoric and writing operate in knowledge-intensive organizations and societies.


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Obscure invitations : the persistence of the author in twentieth-century American literature
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ISBN: 0804780684 9780804780681 9780804773225 080477322X 0804773238 9780804773232 Year: 2011 Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,

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Literary studies in the postwar era have consistently barred attributing specific intentions to authors based on textual evidence or ascribing textual presences to the authors themselves. Obscure Invitations argues that this taboo has blinded us to fundamental elements of twentieth-century literature. Widiss focuses on the particularly self-conscious constructions of authorship that characterize modernist and postmodernist writing, elaborating the narrative strategies they demand and the reading practices they yield. He reveals that apparent manifestations of ""the death of the aut


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Kritiken und Rezensionen.
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ISBN: 9783518585603 3518585606 Year: 2011 Volume: 13 Publisher: Frankfurt am Main Suhrkamp


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Antigone's daughters : gender, genealogy, and the politics of authorship in 20th-century Portuguese women's writing
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ISBN: 1611480035 9781611480030 9781611480023 1611480027 9780838757802 0838757804 1322064806 Year: 2011 Publisher: Lanham, Maryland ; Plymouth, England : Bucknell University Press,

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I>Antigone''s Daughters? provides the first detailed discussion in English of six well-known Portuguese women writers, working across a wide range of genres: Florbela Espanca (1894-1930), Irene Lisboa (1892-1958), Agustina Bessa Lu''s, (1923- ), Nat_lia Correia (1923-93), HZlia Correia (1949 -) and L''dia Jorge (1946 - ). Together they cover the span of the 20th century and afford historical insights into the complex gender politics of achieving institutional acceptance and validation in the Portuguese national canon at different points in the 20th century.


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Why do we quote? : the culture and history of quotation
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ISBN: 9781906924355 1906924341 1906924333 2821817126 190692435X Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge : Open Book Publishers,

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"Quoting is all around us. But do we really know what it means? How do people actually quote today, and how did our present systems come about? This book brings together a down-to-earth account of contemporary quoting with an examination of the comparative and historical background that lies behind it and the characteristic way that quoting links past and present, the far and the near. Drawing from anthropology, cultural history, folklore, cultural studies, sociolinguistics, literary studies and the ethnography of speaking, Ruth Finnegan's fascinating study sets our present conventions into cross-cultural and historical perspective. She traces the curious history of quotation marks, examines the long tradition of quotation collections with their remarkable recycling across the centuries, and explores the uses of quotation in literary, visual and oral traditions. The book tracks the changing definitions and control of quoting over the millennia and in doing so throws new light on ideas such as 'imitation', 'allusion', 'authorship', 'originality' and 'plagiarism'."--Publisher's website.


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Obscure invitations : the persistence of the author in twentieth-century American literature
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ISBN: 9780804773232 9780804773225 Year: 2011 Publisher: Stanford Stanford University Press

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