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The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers
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Include books by the same authorBeginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory
Peter Barry · 338 pages
"Beginning theory has been helping students navigate through the thickets of literary and cultural theory for well over a decade now."--Back cover.
How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
Thomas C. Foster · 325 pages
What does it mean when a fictional hero takes a journey?. Shares a meal? Gets drenched in a sudden rain shower? Often, there is much more going on in a novel or poem than is readily visible on the surface—a symbol, maybe, that remains elusive, or an unexpected twist on a character—and there's that sneaking suspicion that the deeper meaning of a literary text keeps escaping you.In this practical an
The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had
Susan Wise Bauer · 510 pages
"The enduring and engaging guide to educating yourself in the classical tradition."--Amazon.com.
Great Books: My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World
David Denby · 493 pages
In Great Books, Denby lives the common adult fantasy of returning to school with some worldly knowledge and experience of life. A gifted story-teller, he leads us on a glorious tour - by turns eloquent, witty, and moving - through the works themselves and through his experiences as a middle-aged man among freshmen. He recounts his failures and triumphs as a reader and student (taking an exam led t
Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide
Lois Tyson · 456 pages
Literary Criticism: An Introduction to Theory and Practice
Charles E. Bressler
Literature--Structure, Sound, and Sense--Third Edition
Laurence Perrine, Albert Camus, Антон Павлович Чехов · 1,525 pages
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Azar Nafisi · 368 pages
Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Azar Nafisi, a bold and inspired teacher, secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. Some came from conservative and religious families, others were progressive and secular; some had spent time in jail. They were shy and uncomfortable at first, unaccustomed to being asked to
A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf · 129 pages
A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on 24 October 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928. While this extended essay in fact employs a fictional narrator and narrative to explore women both as writers of and characters in fiction, the m
An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory
Andrew Bennett, Nicholas Royle · 379 pages
Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point
Elizabeth D. Samet · 272 pages
Self-Editing for Fiction Writers: How to Edit Yourself Into Print
Renni Browne, Dave King · 226 pages
"Hundreds of books have been written on the art of writing. Here at last is a book by two professional editors to teach writers the techniques of the editing trade that turn promising manuscripts into published novels and short stories." "In this completely revised and updated second edition, Renni Browne and Dave King teach you, the writer, how to apply the editing techniques they have developed
A Short Guide to Writing about Film
Timothy Corrigan · 193 pages
This best-selling text is a succinct guide to thinking critically and writing precisely about film. Both an introduction to film study and a practical writing guide, this brief text introduces students to major film theories as well as film terminology, enabling them to write more thoughtfully and critically. With numerous student and professional examples, this engaging and practical guide progre
Bloom's how to write about Gabriel García Márquez
Eric L. Reinholtz
Perrine's literature -- Tenth Edition
Thomas R. Arp, Greg Johnson, Антон Павлович Чехов · 1,696 pages
Teaching and Reading New Adult Literature in High School and College
Sharon Kane · 222 pages
An introduction to the rapidly growing category of New Adult (NA) literature, this text provides a roadmap to understanding and introducing NA books to young people in high school, college, libraries, and other settings. As a window into the experiences and unique challenges that young and new adults encounter, New Adult literature intersects with but is distinct from Young Adult literature. This
The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative
Vivian Gornick · 174 pages
"All narrative writing must pull from the raw material of life a tale that will shape experience, transform event, deliver a bit of wisdom. In a story or a novel the "I" who tells this tale can be, and often is, an unreliable narrator, but in nonfiction the reader must always be persuaded that the narrator is speaking truth.". "How does one pull from one's own boring, agitated self the reliable n
A Family of Readers: The Book Lover's Guide to Children's and Young Adult Literature
Roger Sutton, Martha V. Parravano
Plot & Structure: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting a Plot That Grips Readers from Start to Finish
James Scott Bell · 234 pages
Elements of Literature - Third Canadian Edition
Robert Scholes, Nancy R. Comley, Carl H. Klaus · 1,349 pages
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
Francine Prose · 296 pages
Long before there were creative-writing workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, says Francine Prose. In *Reading Like a Writer*, Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters. She reads the work of the very best writers—[Dostoyevsky][1], [Flaubert][2], [
A Glossary of Literary Terms
M.H. Abrams · 220 pages
A series of brief essays defining and illustrating literary terms in alphabetical sequence.