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  1. On the Origin of Stories
    Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction
    Author: Boyd, Brian
    Published: [2022]; ©2009
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA

    A century and a half after the publication of Origin of Species, evolutionary thinking has expanded beyond the field of biology to include virtually all human-related subjects—anthropology, archeology, psychology, economics, religion, morality,... more

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    A century and a half after the publication of Origin of Species, evolutionary thinking has expanded beyond the field of biology to include virtually all human-related subjects—anthropology, archeology, psychology, economics, religion, morality, politics, culture, and art. Now a distinguished scholar offers the first comprehensive account of the evolutionary origins of art and storytelling. Brian Boyd explains why we tell stories, how our minds are shaped to understand them, and what difference an evolutionary understanding of human nature makes to stories we love. Art is a specifically human adaptation, Boyd argues. It offers tangible advantages for human survival, and it derives from play, itself an adaptation widespread among more intelligent animals. More particularly, our fondness for storytelling has sharpened social cognition, encouraged cooperation, and fostered creativity. After considering art as adaptation, Boyd examines Homer’s Odyssey and Dr. Seuss’s Horton Hears a Who! demonstrating how an evolutionary lens can offer new understanding and appreciation of specific works. What triggers our emotional engagement with these works? What patterns facilitate our responses? The need to hold an audience’s attention, Boyd underscores, is the fundamental problem facing all storytellers. Enduring artists arrive at solutions that appeal to cognitive universals: an insight out of step with contemporary criticism, which obscures both the individual and universal. Published for the bicentenary of Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of Origin of Species, Boyd’s study embraces a Darwinian view of human nature and art, and offers a credo for a new humanism

     
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    ISBN: 9780674053595
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    RVK Categories: EC 2490 ; EC 2490
    Other subjects: Fiction / Authorship; Fiction / History and criticism / Theory, etc; Fiction / History and criticism; Roman / Art d'écrire; Roman / Histoire et critique; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory
    Scope: 1 online resource (560 p.)
  2. Detecting detection
    international perspectives on the uses of a plot
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Continuum, New York

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    ISBN: 9781441128126; 1441128123
    Subjects: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Composition & Creative Writing; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric; REFERENCE / Writing Skills; Detective and mystery stories / Authorship; Fiction / Authorship; Fiction / Technique; Plots (Drama, novel, etc.); Detective and mystery stories; Plots (Drama, novel, etc.); Fiction; Fiction; Kriminalgeschichte; Prosa; Ermittlung <Motiv>
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 184 pages)
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    We indulge our fascination with detection in many ways, only some of which occur in the detective story. In fact, modern fiction regularly uses elements of a detective narrative to tell another story altogether, to engage characters, narrators, and readers with questions of identity, with examinations of moral and ethical reasoning, with critiques of social and political injustices, and with the metaphysics of meaning itself. Detective plots cross cultural and national boundaries and occur in different ways and different genres. Taken together, they suggest important contemporary understanding

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  3. Letters, fictions, lives
    Henry James and William Dean Howells
    Author: James, Henry
    Published: 1997
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, New York

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    ISBN: 058536561X; 1280524340; 1601297491; 9780195061192; 9780585365619; 9781280524349; 9781601297495
    RVK Categories: HT 5702 ; HT 5705 ; HT 5852 ; HT 5855
    Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; Authors, American; Critics; Fiction / Authorship; Novelists, American; Authors, American; Authors, American; Novelists, American; Novelists, American; Critics; Fiction
    Other subjects: Howells, William Dean / 1837-1920 / Correspondence; James, Henry / 1843-1916; Howells, William Dean / 1837-1920; James, Henry / 1843-1916; James, Henry (1843-1916); Howells, William Dean (1837-1920); Howells, William Dean (1837-1920); James, Henry (1843-1916)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 492 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Abbreviations; A Note on Editorial Procedure; PART ONE: ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES; Biographical Overview; Parallel Chronology; A Season in Cambridge; Complex Fates; The Larger Success; Notes; Letters and Documents; PART TWO: FEARFUL RESPONSIBILITIES; Biographical Overview; Parallel Chronology; "Those Badly Assorted Siamese Twins"; The Art of Fiction; Complicity; Notes; Letters and Documents; PART THREE: LEGENDS OF MASTERY; Biographical Overview; Parallel Chronology; The Great Goethe, the Good Schiller; Testamentary Acts; Terminations; Notes; Letters and Documents; Epilogue

    This volume attempts to determine the early influence shared between William Dean Howells and Henry James by reconstructing and evaluating documentary evidence of their literary cross-fertilization. The 151 letters included represent each writer's most significant criticism of the other
  4. Novel ideas
    contemporary authors share the creative process
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  University of Georgia Press, Athens

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 0820332798; 0820346284; 9780820332796; 9780820346281
    Edition: 2nd ed
    Subjects: Schriftsteller; Literarische Technik; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Composition & Creative Writing; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric; REFERENCE / Writing Skills; Fiction / Authorship; Fiction / Technique; Novelists, American; Fiction; Fiction; Novelists, American
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 333 p.)
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    Preface to the second edition -- Writing a novel -- Introduction -- Book in the mind -- Elements of fiction -- Seeing it through -- Revision -- Interviews: Dorothy Allison -- Larry Brown -- Peter Cameron -- Michael Chabon -- Michael Cunningham -- Robb Forman Dew -- Richard Ford -- Ha Jin -- Patricia Henley -- Charles Johnson -- Wally Lamb -- Valerie Martin -- Jill McCorkle -- Sena Jeter Naslund -- Lewis Nordan -- Sheri Reynolds -- S J Rozan -- Jane Smiley -- Lee Smith -- Theodore Weesner -- Writing exercises

    From the Publisher: Novel Ideas provides a substantial introduction to the elements of fiction followed by in-depth interviews with successful novelists who speak with candor and insight into the complex process by which a novel is made. This edition includes new and updated interviews as well as writing exercises to enhance its use in the writing classroom. Dorothy Allison recalls "deliciously self-indulgent" days of writing in her bathrobe, wrapped in misery and exultation; Peter Cameron explains how he made the move from short fiction to the novel with the aid of a music composer's notebook to track the movement of his characters. Writers as different as Ha Jin, Jill McCorkle, Richard Ford, and Michael Chabon describe their unique approaches to their work while consistently affirming the necessity of committing to the hard effort of it while also remaining open to surprise. Aspiring novelists will find hands-on strategies for beginning, working through, and revising a novel; accomplished novelists will discover new ways to solve the problems they face in process; and serious readers of contemporary fiction will enjoy a glimpse into the way novels are made. Includes interviews with: Dorothy Allison; Larry Brown; Peter Cameron; Michael Chabon; Michael Cunningham; Robb Forman Dew; Richard Ford; Ha Jin; Patricia Henley; Charles Johnson; Wally Lamb; Valerie Martin; Jill McCorkle; Sena Jeter Naslund; Lewis Nordan; Sheri Reynolds; S. J. Rozan; Jane Smiley; Lee Smith; and Theodore Weesner
  5. Narrative progression in the short story
    a corpus stylistic approach
    Author: Toolan, Michael J.
    Published: ©2009
    Publisher:  John Benjamins Pub. Co., Amsterdam

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9027233381; 902729061X; 9789027233387; 9789027290618
    Series: Linguistic approaches to literature ; v. 6
    Subjects: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric; REFERENCE / Writing Skills; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Composition & Creative Writing; Fiction / Authorship; Narration (Rhetoric); Short story / Technique; Narration (Rhetoric); Short story; Fiction; Erzähltechnik; Rezeption; Korpus <Linguistik>; Kurzgeschichte
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 212 pages)
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    Introduction : narrative prospecting -- Collocation and corpus stylistics -- Lexical patternings in short stories -- Top keyword sentences as story waymarking -- Keywords and the language of guidance in "The love of a good woman" -- Repetition and para-repetition in story structure -- Prospection and expectation : core signalling -- Prospection and expectation : embedded signalling -- The textual tracking of suspense and surprise -- Next steps

    One of our most valuable capacities is our ability partly to predict what will come next in a text. But linguistic understanding of this remains very limited, especially in genres such as the short story where there is a staging of the clash between predictability and unpredictability. This book proposes that a matrix of narrativity-furthering textual features is crucial to the reader's forming of expectations about how a literary story will continue to its close. Toolan uses corpus linguistic software and methods, and stylistic and narratological theory, in the course of delineating the matrix of eight parameters that he sees as crucial to creating narrative progression and expectation. --From publisher's description
  6. The textuality of soulwork
    Jack Kerouac's quest for spontaneous prose
    Author: Hunt, Tim
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  The Univ. of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, Michigan

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    ISBN: 9780472072163; 9780472052165; 9780472120321
    Series: Editorial theory and literary criticism
    Subjects: Fiction / Authorship; Fiction / Technique; Prosa
    Other subjects: Kerouac, Jack / 1922-1969 / Technique; Kerouac, Jack (1922-1969); Electronic books
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (229 p.)
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  7. Negotiating with the dead
    a writer on writing
    Author: Atwood, Margaret
    Published: 2003
    Publisher:  Anchor Books, New York

    The brilliant Booker Prize-winning author of nearly 40 books here addresses the twin arts of writing and reading in what could become a necessary classic for all admirers of great literature more

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    The brilliant Booker Prize-winning author of nearly 40 books here addresses the twin arts of writing and reading in what could become a necessary classic for all admirers of great literature

     
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    ISBN: 9781400032600
    RVK Categories: HQ 4156
    Edition: First Anchor Books Edition
    Subjects: Schriftsteller; Rolle; Literaturproduktion
    Other subjects: Atwood, Margaret / 1939-; Atwood, Margaret / 1939-; Fiction / Authorship; Authorship; Authorship; Fiction / Authorship
    Scope: xxvii, 219 Seiten, 21 cm
  8. Techniques of the selling writer
    Author: Swain, Dwight V.
    Published: [1981]
    Publisher:  University of Oklahoma Press, Norman

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 0806111917; 9780806111919
    Edition: Paperback edition, [reprint]
    Subjects: Schreiben; Englisch; Prosa
    Other subjects: Fiction / Authorship
    Scope: VIII, 330 Seiten
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    First ed. published in 1965 under title: Tricks & techniques of the selling writer - Bibliography: p. [321]-323
  9. Curious attractions
    essays on fiction writing
    Author: Spark, Debra
    Published: c2005
    Publisher:  University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor

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    ISBN: 0472027433; 9780472027439
    Subjects: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric; REFERENCE / Writing Skills; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Composition & Creative Writing; Fiction / Authorship; Fiction
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 175 p.)
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    The trigger : what gives rise to a story? -- Getting in and getting out : first words on first (and last) words -- Speaking of style -- Cry, cry, cry : handling emotion in fiction -- Curious attractions : magical realism's fate in the states -- Aspects of the short novel -- Border guard : fabulism in Stuart Dybek's "Hot ice" -- Stand back -- Cheer up, why don't you?
  10. Conversations and reflections
    Author: Humphreys, Emyr
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  University of Wales Press, Cardiff

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    ISBN: 0708317359; 1417514949; 9780708317358; 9781417514946
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Fiction / Authorship; Intellectual life; Literature; Novelists, Welsh; Literatur; Novelists, Welsh; Fiction
    Other subjects: Humphreys, Emyr / 1919- / Criticism and interpretation; Humphreys, Emyr; Humphreys, Emyr
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 229 p.)
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  11. The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman, Volumes I-IV
    Author: Sterne, Laurence
    Published: c201-
    Publisher:  Floating Press, [Waiheke Island]

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    ISBN: 1775419193; 1776513711; 9781775419198; 9781776513710
    Subjects: FICTION / General; Fiction / Authorship; Fiction
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (1007 p.)
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    "First published in 1759"--P. 2. - Title from PDF title page (viewed Apr. 12, 2011)
  12. Hotly in pursuit of the real
    notes toward a memoir
    Author: Hansen, Ron
    Published: [2020]; © 2020
    Publisher:  Wipf & Stock, Eugene, Oregon

    In Hotly in Pursuit of the Real, the beloved bestselling novelist Ron Hansen opens the doors of his writing studio to share with us his passions for history, scandal, theology, Jesuits, the American West, and golf (which he plays even in bad... more

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    In Hotly in Pursuit of the Real, the beloved bestselling novelist Ron Hansen opens the doors of his writing studio to share with us his passions for history, scandal, theology, Jesuits, the American West, and golf (which he plays even in bad weather). If Hansen's novels explore people very different from himself--from a stigmatic nun to a Victorian poet to Billy the Kid, and even Hitler's niece--the meditations in this book do the opposite, allowing us to glimpse the wellsprings of his imagination, the places and traditions and books that drive him to create made-up worlds. In that sense, the reflections in these pages truly serve as "notes toward a memoir." As each section unfolds, we gain a clearer sense of Hansen's aesthetic, the parallels he sees between writing and the sacraments, between literature's capacity to make history present to us and the Church's rich array of traditions, including the Jesuit charism that has inspired great writers, such as Gerard Manley Hopkins (and himself). Equally adept at telling a hilarious anecdote and guiding us through a complex, ambiguous episode in history, Hansen's language remains fresh and invigorating. Hotly in Pursuit of the Real takes you inside one writer's imagination, only to send you back out into the wide world with new eyes. -- back cover

     
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  13. Zāwīya-i dīd-i qiṣṣahā wa rumānshā
    Author: Mīr Ṣādiqī, Ǧamāl
    Published: 1398 [hiǧra šamsī]/[2019]
    Publisher:  Ṣadā-i Muʿāṣir, Tihrān

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    Contributor: Malikān, Insīya (Publisher)
    Language: Persian
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9786006298917
    RVK Categories: EV 7020
    Edition: Naubat-i čāp: awwal
    Subjects: Fiction / Authorship; Fiction / Technique; Fiction / Authorship; Fiction / Technique; Literatur; Autor
    Scope: 440 Seiten, 22 cm
  14. Conceptualisation and exposition
    a theory of character construction
    Author: Varotsi, Lina
    Published: 2019; © 2019
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York, NY

    While the concept of the fictional character has been widely discussed at interdisciplinary level, a foundational theory of character creation is yet to follow. As a result, creative writing students and beginner writers refer to post-construction... more

     

    While the concept of the fictional character has been widely discussed at interdisciplinary level, a foundational theory of character creation is yet to follow. As a result, creative writing students and beginner writers refer to post-construction analysis, as well as the step-by-step advice often suggested by popular writing manuals. Aiming to fill this gap and at the same time reconcile approaches in writing and criticism, this book proposes a theory of character creation based on the in-depth analysis of the concept, as well its place within the narrative. The approach suggested herein consists of two interrelated stages: conceptualisation and exposition. Conceptualisation entails the in-depth understanding of what constitutes the fictional character, as well as the dynamics of its correlation with the reader, the author and its real counterpart, the human person; Exposition refers to the conveyance of such understanding on paper. Viewing creative writing as an art and craft, the author builds her theory on the notion that comprehension of the world and the concept of character itself is an essential prerequisite in order to construct consistent and believable fictional persons. Varotsi also introduces her four stages of creation: Observation, Perception, Empathy and Imagination to inspire a method of work according to which personal craftsmanship and artistry can be successfully combined with pedagogic technique

     
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    ISBN: 9780429060762; 0429060769; 9780429595196; 0429595190; 9780429592614; 0429592612; 9780429593901; 0429593902
    Series: Literary criticism and cultural theory
    Literary criticism and cultural theory
    Subjects: Fiction / Technique; Fiction / Authorship; Characters and characteristics in literature; Fictitious characters
    Scope: 1 online resource
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    Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 18, 2019)
  15. Character development and storytelling for games
    Author: Sheldon, Lee
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Course Technology, Cengage Learning, Boston, MA

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781435461048; 1435461045
    RVK Categories: ST 324
    Edition: 2. ed.
    Subjects: Computer games / Design; Fiction / Authorship; Erzähler; Charakterisierung; Spielfigur; Literarische Gestalt; Erzähltechnik; Computerspiel; Erzählen
    Scope: XVI, 538 S., Ill., graph. Darst., 25 cm
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    Previous ed.: 2004

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  16. You're a genius all the time
    belief and technique for modern prose
    Author: Kerouac, Jack
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  Chronicle Books, San Francisco, Calif.

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    Language: English
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    Subjects: Fiction / Authorship; Fiction / Technique; Authorship; Authorship; Fiction; Fiction
    Other subjects: Kerouac, Jack / 1922-1969 / Technique; Kerouac, Jack <1922-1969>
    Scope: [96] S., Ill., 14 x 16 cm
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    Originally published in Evergreen review in 2 parts: Essentials of spontaneous prose (summer 1958) and Belief and technique for modern prose (spring 1959)
  17. The representation of the spoken mode in fiction
    how authors write how people talk
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  Mellen, Lewiston, N.Y. [u.a.]

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  18. The democratic genre
    fan fiction in a literary context
    Author: Pugh, Sheenagh
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  Seren, Bridgend

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    Universitätsbibliothek der LMU München
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 1854113992; 9781854113993
    RVK Categories: EC 2120
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Subjects: Fan fiction / History and criticism; Sequels (Literature); Fiction / Authorship; Fans (Persons); Fan-Fiction
    Scope: 282 S., 21 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references and indexes

    Puppeteers -- The knowledge : writing with a canon -- What else and what if : sequels, prequels, crossovers, missing scenes, and AUs -- Our characters : from canon to Mary Sue -- Male sorting : slash -- The communal online sandpit : collaboration and support -- Across the borderline : fanfic and profic -- Going there : narrative forms and methods -- Speak for yourself : fanfic writers and individual voices -- A good reader also creates -- A glossary of fanfic terms -- Fan fiction on the Internet -- Under the waterfall : a fan fiction community's self-analysis -- Reading between the loins
  19. Conversations with Chaim Potok
    Published: 2001
    Publisher:  Univ. Press of Mississippi, Jackson

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  20. Conversations with Russell Banks
    Contributor: Banks, Russell; Roche, David (Publisher)
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  University Press of Mississippi, Jackson

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    Contributor: Banks, Russell; Roche, David (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781604737455; 9781604737462; 9781496834560
    RVK Categories: HU 9800
    Series: Literary conversations series
    Subjects: Novelists, American / 20th century / Interviews; Authors, American / 20th century / Interviews; Fiction / Authorship
    Other subjects: Banks, Russell / 1940- / Interviews; Banks, Russell (1940-2023)
    Scope: xv, 193 Seiten
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  21. The book you need to read to write the book you want to write
    a handbook for fiction writers
    Author: Burton, Sarah; Poster, Jem
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    Have you ever wanted to write a novel or short story but didn't know where to start? If so, this is the book for you. It's the book for anyone, in fact, who wants to write to their full potential. Practical and jargon-free, rejecting prescriptive... more

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    Have you ever wanted to write a novel or short story but didn't know where to start? If so, this is the book for you. It's the book for anyone, in fact, who wants to write to their full potential. Practical and jargon-free, rejecting prescriptive templates and formulae, it's a storehouse of ideas and advice on a range of relevant subjects, from boosting self-motivation and confidence to approaching agents and publishers. Drawing on the authors' extensive experience as successful writers and inspiring teachers, it will guide you through such essentials as the interplay of memory and imagination; plotting your story; the creation of convincing characters; the uses of description; the pleasures and pitfalls of research; and the editing process. The book's primary aim is simple: to help its readers to become better writers

     
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    Volltext (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781009072571
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    RVK Categories: HG 180 ; EC 4600
    Subjects: Fiction / Authorship; Fiction / Technique
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 283 Seiten)
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  22. Studying creative writing
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Creative Writing Studies, Newmarket, Suffolk

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781907076428; 1907076425
    RVK Categories: EC 2260 ; ES 680
    Subjects: Kreatives Schreiben
    Other subjects: Fiction / Authorship; Roman / Art d'écrire; Creative writing / Study and teaching
    Scope: vii, 193 pages, 23 cm
  23. Embracing vocation
    Cormac McCarthy's writing life, 1959-1974
    Author: Luce, Dianne C.
    Published: [2023]; © 2023
    Publisher:  The University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, South Carolina

    "Revelations on craft from a foundational scholar of Cormac McCarthy. Devotees of Cormac McCarthy's novels are legion, and deservedly so. Embracing Vocation, which tells the tale of his journey to become one of America's greatest living writers, will... more

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    "Revelations on craft from a foundational scholar of Cormac McCarthy. Devotees of Cormac McCarthy's novels are legion, and deservedly so. Embracing Vocation, which tells the tale of his journey to become one of America's greatest living writers, will be invaluable to scholars and literary critics-and to the many fans-interested in his work. Dianne C. Luce, a foundational scholar of McCarthy's writing, through extensive archival research, examines the first fifteen years of his career and his earliest novels. Novel by novel, Luce traces each book's evolution. In the process she unveils McCarthy's working processes as well as his personal, literary, and professional influences, highlighting his ferocious devotion to both his craft and burgeoning art. Luce invites us to see the fascinating evolution of an American author with a unique vision all his own. Until there is a full-on biography, this study, along with Luce's previous, Reading the World: Cormac McCarthy's Tennessee Period, is the finest available portrait of an American genius unfolding"--

     
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  24. Collaborative worldbuilding for writers & gamers
    Author: Hergenrader, Trent
    Published: [2018]
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Academic, London

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    Katholische Hochschule Nordrhein-Westfalen (katho), Hochschulbibliothek
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Authorship / Collaboration; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.); Fiction / Authorship; Imaginary societies / Authorship; Narration (Rhetoric)
    Scope: 1 online resource (xvi, 257 pages), cm
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Also issued in print
  25. Conversations with Russell Banks
    Contributor: Banks, Russell; Roche, David (Publisher)
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  University Press of Mississippi, Jackson

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin; Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Contributor: Banks, Russell; Roche, David (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781604737455; 9781604737462; 9781496834560
    RVK Categories: HU 9800
    Series: Literary conversations series
    Subjects: Novelists, American / 20th century / Interviews; Authors, American / 20th century / Interviews; Fiction / Authorship
    Other subjects: Banks, Russell / 1940- / Interviews; Banks, Russell (1940-2023)
    Scope: xv, 193 Seiten
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