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Voice & vision : a guide to writing history and other serious nonfiction
- Title
- Voice & vision : a guide to writing history and other serious nonfiction / Stephen J. Pyne.
- Author
- Pyne, Stephen J., 1949-
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 17-267 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- x, 314 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- Voice and Vision is for those who wish to understand the ways in which literary considerations can enhance nonfiction writing. At issue is not whether writing is scholarly or popular, narrative or analytical, but whether it is good. --from publisher description
- Alternative Title
- Voice and vision
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-308) and index.
- Contents
- In the beginning, words -- Art and craft -- Rules of engagement -- Nonfiction as writing -- Voice-- -- --and vision -- Designing -- Plotting -- Transitioning -- Dramatizing -- Editing I -- Prose -- Character -- Setting -- Point of view -- Showing and telling -- Editing II -- Figures of speech -- Technical information -- Questions of scale -- Theory and practice -- Writing lives.
- Call Number
- JFD 17-267
- ISBN
- 9780674033306 (alk. paper)
- 0674033302 (alk. paper)
- 9780674060425 (pbk.)
- 0674060423 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2008043403
- OCLC
- 261175555
- Author
- Pyne, Stephen J., 1949-
- Title
- Voice & vision : a guide to writing history and other serious nonfiction / Stephen J. Pyne.
- Imprint
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-308) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 17-267