Writers¿ Stories in Motion

Healing, Joy, and Triumph
Herausgegeben:Gray-Rosendale, Laura

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this book, various writers from different backgrounds share beautiful, creatively-written essays about how forms of physical activity (e.g., hiking, backpacking, road running, building a fire, practicing yoga, trail running, walking, boogie boarding, cycling, snowshoeing, swimming, mountain biking, and doing triathlons) as well as their interactions with the natural world have impacted their specific writing practices, teaching approaches, and who they are as people. In their lively pieces they explore the myriad ways in which physical activities in particular environmental contexts have directly and radically impacted their composing processes as well as their lives as writers. Drawing from techniques in creative nonfiction as well as rhetoric and writing studies, each author draws the reader into her/his adventures and experiences in illuminating ways, furthering the argument that physical activities are not disconnected from our writing. Rather, they are inextricably linked to our writing practices. And oftentimes we are in fact composing in the very act of engaging in such physical activities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 317337
• Seitenzahl: 158
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 305g
• ISBN-13: 9781433173370
• ISBN-10: 1433173379
• Artikelnr.: 60077595

Autorenporträt

Laura Gray-Rosendale, President¿s Distinguished Teaching Fellow and Professor of English at Northern Arizona University, is the author of numerous books that bring together creative nonfiction, writing studies, and rhetoric. Her books College Girl: A Memoir and Getting Personal: Teaching Personal Writing in the Digital Age have both received IPPY Awards.

Inhaltsangabe

Laura Gray-Rosendale: Introduction - Annette McGivney: Hiking Hard - EiLeen E. Schell: Teaming Up: Running and Writing in Collaboration - Karen Auvinen: Building the Fire: How Routine and Practice Create a Spark - Jill Weiss Ippolito: The Bermuda Standard: Through the Practice of Both Yoga and Writing I Rise Up and Heal from Trauma - Laura Gray-Rosendale: Chasing Creativity: Trail Running to Write - Elizabeth Geoghegan: Uncharted: Walking and Writing Off the Map - Suzanne Roberts: Catching the Next Wave: Writing and Boogie Boarding - Shawna Kenney: Self-Propelled: How Biking Steered My Writing Life - Elisabeth Fairfield Stokes: Snowshoeing on a Lake on a Quiet Evening - Lynn Z. Bloom: Swimming in the Existential Lane - Kyle Boggs: Mountain Biking, Writing, and Reckoning - Optimism one: Writing with Iron - About the Contributors - Index.

Rezensionen

"Laura Gray-Rosendale has assembled a collection of beautifully rendered essays that are very personal to me. Since our daughter began her struggle with an eating disorder, I no longer move through the world in the same way. Now, mostly, I walk with my daughter and talk about the places we will go and the book we will one day write when she is better. Then, I see something close to a smile. These essays remind me of that half-smile. They plumb essential and hard-won truths about the beauty and tenuousness of life."-James Campbell, Author of Braving It and recipient of the Lowell Thomas Travel Writing Silver Medal