Research Catalog
To show and to tell : the craft of literary nonfiction / Phillip Lopate.
- Title
- To show and to tell : the craft of literary nonfiction / Phillip Lopate.
- Author
- Lopate, Phillip, 1943-
- Publication
- New York : Free Press, 2013.
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
1 Item
| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PN145 .L67 2013 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xi, 225 pages; 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.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fiction
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- I. 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 -- II. 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.
- ISBN
- 9781451696325
- 1451696329
- 9781451696332
- 1451696337
- LCCN
- ^^2012025669
- OCLC
- 798923699
- SCSB-12843539
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library