George H. Jensen, Heidi Skurat Harris

Norman Maclean's "A River Runs through It" (eBook, PDF)

The Search for Beauty

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Norman Maclean's "A River Runs Through It": The Search for Beauty is the first book-length study of Norman Maclean or any of his works. This study traces Maclean's revisions through four hand-written drafts and three typescripts, quoting extensive from previously unpublished material.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040090626
• Artikelnr.: 72244650

Autorenporträt

George H. Jensen is a Professor Emeritus with the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Arkansas Little Rock. His books include Personality and the Teaching of Composition (with John K. DiTiberio, 1989), Storytelling in Alcoholics Anonymous: A Rhetorical Analysis (2000), Identities Across Texts (2002), and The Ethics of Nonfiction: Rhetoric, Ethos, and Identity (2023). In addition these scholarly works, he has written Some of the Words are Theirs: A Memoir of an Alcoholic Family (2009). He currently lives in Roanoke, Virginia.

Heidi Skurat Harris is an Associate Professor and the Graduate Coordinator with the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She is co-author (with Michael Greer) of Multimedia in the College Classroom: Improve Learning and Connect with Students in Online and Hybrid Classes (2024). She is also the lead editor of the Bedford Bibliography of Research in Online Writing Instruction (2017). She has published creative nonfiction and research on professional development.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note on Diplomatic Transcriptions,
Citations from Maclean Papers, and Bibliographic Terms Foreword           
Jean Maclean Snyder Preface Chapter 1: Maclean's Improbable Writing
Career Chapter 2: Evolution of the Beginning            The First Draft
(MS1)            The Second Draft (MS2)            The Third Draft (MS3)
and the Fourth Draft (MS4)            Revisions on the
Typescripts            Conclusion Chapter 3: No Clear Line between Fiction
and Nonfiction            Shifting Time            Metanarration           
Real People and Characters            Paul's Death           
Conclusion Chapter 4: Variations of Time            Clock Time           
Calendar Time            Historical Time            Life Span           
Diurnal Time            Biblical Time            Geological Time           
Eternity            All Things Merge into One            Conclusion Chapter
5: The Problem of Genre            Genre and Emotions            Romance
and Nostalgia: Norman and Paul's Childhood            Ceremonial Rhetoric:
The Montana Club            Paul and the Beautiful: The First Fishing
Trip            A Little Tragedy: Paul in Jail            Comedy: Neal at
Black Jack's Bar            Mock-Tragedy: The Second Fishing
Trip            Comedy: The Third Fishing Trip            Romance and the
Sublime: The Last Fishing Trip            Tragedy: The Aftermath of Paul's
Death            Resolution: The Lyric and the Beautiful           
Conclusion Chapter 6: Style and Hidden Art            Reverend Maclean's
Commonplace Book            Storytelling around the Campfire            A
Personal Poetic Language            Rhythm in Maclean's Prose           
Sound in Maclean's Prose            Conclusion Chapter 7: The Evolution of
the End            Notes Version            A "Crude Version"           
MS2B            Fair Copy            Revisions on Typescript
Pages            Print Versions            Afterword Works Cited Appendix
1: Notes on Revising "Fly Fishing" (MS1) Appendix 2: Typescripts, Fonts,
and Typists            Fonts and Typists            Rejected Type