Interweaving the author's personal journey through grief with a guide on how to write about it, this book is both Sam Meeking's raw account of the death of his younger brother and a step-by-step breakdown of the memoir writing process.
Interweaving the author's personal journey through grief with a guide on how to write about it, this book is both Sam Meeking's raw account of the death of his younger brother and a step-by-step breakdown of the memoir writing process.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Sam Meekings is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Northwestern University in Qatar. He is the author of Under Fishbone Clouds (2011, called 'a poetic evocation of the country and its people' by the New York Times), The Book of Crows (2012), and The Afterlives of Dr Gachet (2018). He has a PhD in creative writing from Lancaster University, UK, and has taught writing at NYU (Global Campus) and the University of Chichester, UK. He is co-editor of the volumes Place and the Writer (Bloomsbury, 2021), The Scholarship of Creative Writing (2024) and The Creative Writing Workshop in the 21st Century (2026), all with Bloomsbury Academic. He researches issues of identity in grief narratives, and the practices and processes of digital storytelling.
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Introduction Part I: Writing as Discovery Chapter 1: Beginnings Chapter 2: Writing into the Dark Chapter 3: Setting Myself on Fire Chapter 4: Home/Sickness Chapter 5: Ten Ways of Thinking about the Body Chapter 6: Palimpsest Part II: Writing as Transformation Chapter 7: Forgiveness Chapter 8: Metaphor Chapter 9: Embracing Failure Chapter 10: Transformations [Midpoint Self-assessment] Part III: Writing as Renewal Chapter 11: Fable and Myth Chapter 12: Personal Ecology Chapter 13: Writing the Unknown Chapter 14: Returning to Childhood Chapter 15: Dreams and the Unconscious Part IV: Writing as Magic Chapter 16: Talking with Ghosts Chapter 17: Pleasures and Passions Chapter 18: Poetic Tools Chapter 19: Summoning Chapter 20: Endings Conclusion Additional Resources Annotated Bibliography Index
Introduction Part I: Writing as Discovery Chapter 1: Beginnings Chapter 2: Writing into the Dark Chapter 3: Setting Myself on Fire Chapter 4: Home/Sickness Chapter 5: Ten Ways of Thinking about the Body Chapter 6: Palimpsest Part II: Writing as Transformation Chapter 7: Forgiveness Chapter 8: Metaphor Chapter 9: Embracing Failure Chapter 10: Transformations [Midpoint Self-assessment] Part III: Writing as Renewal Chapter 11: Fable and Myth Chapter 12: Personal Ecology Chapter 13: Writing the Unknown Chapter 14: Returning to Childhood Chapter 15: Dreams and the Unconscious Part IV: Writing as Magic Chapter 16: Talking with Ghosts Chapter 17: Pleasures and Passions Chapter 18: Poetic Tools Chapter 19: Summoning Chapter 20: Endings Conclusion Additional Resources Annotated Bibliography Index
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