Blurring the Boundaries

Explorations to the Fringes of Nonfiction
Herausgeber: Hollars, B J

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Produktbeschreibung

B.J. Hollars is an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. He is the author of several books including¿From the Mouths of Dogs: What Our Pets Teach Us About Life, Death, and Being Human ,¿Thirteen Loops: Race, Violence, The Last Lynching in America and Opening the Doors: The Desegregation of the University of Alabama and the Fight for Civil Rights in Tuscaloosa, and¿Flock Together: A Love Affair with Extinct Birds.¿

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 137mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780803236486
• ISBN-10: 0803236484
• Artikelnr.: 36932043

Autorenporträt

B.J. Hollars is an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. He is the author of several books including From the Mouths of Dogs: What Our Pets Teach Us About Life, Death, and Being Human , Thirteen Loops: Race, Violence, The Last Lynching in America and Opening the Doors: The Desegregation of the University of Alabama and the Fight for Civil Rights in Tuscaloosa, and Flock Together: A Love Affair with Extinct Birds. 

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
B.J. Hollars
      Introduction: Let the Blurring Begin
Marcia Aldrich
      The Structure of Trouble
      On "The Structure of Trouble": Fitting Function to Form
Monica Berlin
      The Eighteenth Week
      On "The Eighteenth Week": On Point of View
Eula Biss
      Time and Distance Overcome
      On "Time and Distance Overcome": The Rewards of Research
Ryan Boudinot
      An Essay and a Story about Mötley Crüe
      On "An Essay and a Story about Mötley Crüe": Knowing One's Audience
and Making Your Dreams Come True
Ashley Butler
      Dazzle
      On "Dazzle": The Fluidity of Boundaries
Steven Church
      Thirty Minutes to the End: An Essay to My Aunt Judy on the Occasion
of the May 4, 2007, Tornado
      On "Thirty Minutes to the End: An Essay to My Aunt Judy on the
Occasion of the May 4, 2007, Tornado": Rethinking Genre
Stuart Dybek
      Bait
      On "Bait": The Hybridity of Form
Beth Ann Fennelly
      Salvos into the World of Hummers
      On "Salvos into the World of Hummers": The Convergence of Subject and
Style
Robin Hemley
      Flagpole Wedding, Coshocton, Ohio, 1946: An Essay on Process
      On "Flagpole Wedding, Coshocton, Ohio, 1946: An Essay on Process":
Transitioning from Notes to Novel
Naomi Kimbell
      Whistling in the Dark
      On "Whistling in the Dark": When Telling Lies Reveals Truth
Kim Dana Kupperman
      71 Fragments for a Chronology of Possibility
      On "71 Fragments for a Chronology of Possibility": An Eight-Fragment,
Five-Paragraph Essay
Paul Maliszewski
      Headaches
      On "Headaches": Articulating the Inexplicable
Michael Martone
      Asymmetry
      On "Asymmetry": The Typewriter Is Not a Typewriter
Ander Monson
      Outline toward a Theory of the Mine versus the Mind and the Harvard
Outline
      Outline toward a Reflection on the Outline and the Splitting of the
Atom, I Mean the Colorado River, I Mean Our Collective Attentions, or Maybe
I Mean the Brain, Which Is Mostly Forks, You Know
Dinty W. Moore
      Four Essential Tips for Telling the Truth in Personal Memoir and
Securing That Blockbuster Book Deal
      On "Four Essential Tips for Telling the Truth . . .": Implementing
Exaggeration and Humor
Susan Neville
      A Visit to the Doctor
      On "A Visit to the Doctor": The Omission of I
Brian Oliu
      Contra
      On "Contra": Nostalgia and the Shared Experience
Lia Purpura
      Squirrel: An Ars Poetica
      On "Squirrel: An Ars Poetica": Starting in One Place and Ending in
Another
Wendy Rawlings
      Why I Hope My Soap Opera Will Outlive Me and Other Confessions about
a Dying Art
      On "Why I Hope My Soap Opera Will Outlive Me and Other Confessions
about a Dying Art": Breaking the Fourth Wall
Ryan Van Meter
      Monster
      On "Monster": The Immersion Effect
Writing Exercises
Contributors