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  1. Soul at the white heat
    inspiration, obsession, and the writing life
    Published: [2016]; ©2016
    Publisher:  Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, New York, NY

    A new collection of critical and personal essays on writing, obsession, and inspiration from National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates. "Why do we write?" With this question, Joyce Carol Oates begins an... more

    Universitätsbibliothek Mannheim
    500 HU 4608 S722
    No inter-library loan
    Brechtbau-Bibliothek
    PP 106.353
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

     

    A new collection of critical and personal essays on writing, obsession, and inspiration from National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates. "Why do we write?" With this question, Joyce Carol Oates begins an imaginative exploration of the writing life, and all its attendant anxieties, joys, and futilities, in this collection of seminal essays and criticism. Leading her quest is a desire to understand the source of the writer's inspiration--do subjects haunt those that might bring them back to life until the writer submits? Or does something "happen" to us, a sudden ignition of a burning flame? Can the appearance of a muse-like Other bring about a writer's best work? --Publisher's description A collection of critical and personal essays on writing, obsession, and inspiration allows the author to play literary detective while dissecting the work of other authors and herself

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780062564504; 0062564501
    RVK Categories: HU 4608
    Edition: First edition
    Subjects: Authorship; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.); American literature; English literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays; American literature; Authorship; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.); English literature
    Scope: x, 390 Seiten, 24 cm
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    Critical and personal essays

  2. Soul at the white heat
    inspiration, obsession, and the writing life
    Published: [2016]
    Publisher:  Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, New York, NY

    A new collection of critical and personal essays on writing, obsession, and inspiration from National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates. "Why do we write?" With this question, Joyce Carol Oates begins an... more

     

    A new collection of critical and personal essays on writing, obsession, and inspiration from National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates. "Why do we write?" With this question, Joyce Carol Oates begins an imaginative exploration of the writing life, and all its attendant anxieties, joys, and futilities, in this collection of seminal essays and criticism. Leading her quest is a desire to understand the source of the writer's inspiration--do subjects haunt those that might bring them back to life until the writer submits? Or does something "happen" to us, a sudden ignition of a burning flame? Can the appearance of a muse-like Other bring about a writer's best work? --Publisher's description A collection of critical and personal essays on writing, obsession, and inspiration allows the author to play literary detective while dissecting the work of other authors and herself

     

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