Sara Haslam, Derek Neale

Life Writing

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Concise and practical, Life Writing offers an inspirational guide to the methods and techniques of authorship and is a must-read for aspiring writers. The volume includes never-before published interviews and conversations with successful life writers such as Jenny Diski, Robert Fraser, Richard Holmes, Michael Holroyd, Jackie Kay, Hanif Kureishi and Blake Morrison.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 228g
• ISBN-13: 9780415461535
• ISBN-10: 0415461537
• Artikelnr.: 23605329

Autorenporträt

Sara Haslam is Lecturer in Literature at the Open University. She is the author of Fragmenting Modernism: Ford Madox Ford, the Novel and the Great War (2002), and editor of Ford's England and the English (2003) as well as Ford Madox Ford and the City (2005). She is working on a study of Ford's biography. Derek Neale is Lecturer in Creative Writing at the Open University. He is an award winning fiction writer and much of his PhD research focused on the link between writing and memory. He is editor and co-author of A Creative Writing Handbook (2009, A&C Black) and co-author of Writing Fiction (2008, Routledge).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Stimulating Creativity: What Really Works 2. Keeping a
Writer's Notebook 3. Character Creation 4. Setting 5. Point of View: Trying
on Voices 6. Point of View: Degrees of Knowing 7. Showing and Telling 8.
Structure 9. The Story and The Reader