The Story about the Story II: Great Writers Explore Great Literature
In the second volume of The Story about the Story, editor J. C. Hallman continues to argue for an alternative to the staid five-paragraph-essay writing that has inoculated so many against the effects of good books. Writers have long approached writing about reading from an intensely personal perspective. Never before collected in a single volume, these many essays demonstrate new possibilities for how to write about reading. They offer lessons from a remarkable range of celebrated authors, amounting to an invaluable course on how to both write and read. Whether they discuss a staple of the canon (Thomas Mann on Leo Tolstoy), the merits of a c…
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Weitere Autoren: Hallman, J. C. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-935639-68-8
- EAN: 9781935639688
- Produktnummer: 14868798
- Verlag: Tin House Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 325 S.
- Masse: H21.3 cm x B13.7 cm x D2.3 cm 358 g
- Gewicht: 358
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In addition to editing The Story About the Story, J.C. Hallman is the author of several books, including The Chess Artist, In Utopia, Wm & H'ry, and B & Me: A True Story of Literary Arousal. The list of contributors includes: 1) Wendy Lesser on Cervantes2) Philip Lopate on Stendhal3) John Berryman on Anne Frank4) David Shields on Bill Murray5) Zadie Smith on Hurston F6) Charles Baxter on Chekhov7) Thomas Mann on Tolstoy8) Jane Tompkins on L'Amour9) Joyce Carol Oates on Mary Shelley10) Martin Amis on Larkin11) Margaret Atwood on Wells12) Michael Dirda on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight13) Walter Benjamin on Leskov14) Nicholson Baker on Defoe15) James Thurber on James16) Elizabeth Hardwick on Melville17) David Foster Wallace on Updike18) Jacque Barzun on Abraham Lincoln19) Vivian Gornick on Paley20) H.L. Mencken on Dreiser21) Susan Cheever on Alcott22) Ralph Ellison on Crane23) Joseph Conrad on Crane24) Francisco Goldman on Bolano25) Katherine Anne Porter on Cather26) Harold Bloom on Hans Christian Andersen
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