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To show and to tell : the craft of literary nonfiction
- Title
- To show and to tell : the craft of literary nonfiction / Phillip Lopate.
- Author
- Lopate, Phillip, 1943-
- Publication
- New York : Free Press, 2013.
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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 13-5774 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xi, 225 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- 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.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- 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 -- 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.
- Call Number
- JFD 13-5774
- ISBN
- 9781451696325 (trade paper)
- 1451696329 (trade paper)
- LCCN
- 2012025669
- OCLC
- 798923699
- Author
- Lopate, Phillip, 1943-
- Title
- To show and to tell : the craft of literary nonfiction / Phillip Lopate.
- Imprint
- New York : Free Press, 2013.
- Edition
- 1st Free Press trade paperback ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 13-5774