The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, ArtHarper Collins, 14 sep 2004 - 176 pagina's A tribute to the brilliant craftsmanship of one of our most distinguished writers, providing valuable insight into her inspiration and her method Joyce Carol Oates is widely regarded as one of America's greatest contemporary literary figures. Having written in a number of genres -- prose, poetry, personal and critical essays, as well as plays -- she is an artist ideally suited to answer essential questions about what makes a story striking, a novel come alive, a writer an artist as well as a craftsman. In The Faith of a Writer, Oates discusses the subjects most important to the narrative craft, touching on topics such as inspiration, memory, self-criticism, and "the unique power of the unconscious." On a more personal note, she speaks of childhood inspirations, offers advice to young writers, and discusses the wildly varying states of mind of a writer at work. Oates also pays homage to those she calls her "significant predecessors" and discusses the importance of reading in the life of a writer. Oates claims, "Inspiration and energy and even genius are rarely enough to make 'art': for prose fiction is also a craft, and craft must be learned, whether by accident or design." In fourteen succinct chapters, The Faith of a Writer provides valuable lessons on how language, ideas, and experience are assembled to create art. |
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... Lewis Car- roll's Alice is always seen from a little distance , as “ Alice . ” But many of the adult writers whom I struggled to read wrote in the first person , and very persuasively . I could not have distin- guished between the ...
... Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking - Glass . Out of nowhere this marvel came to me , a farm child , in a work - oriented household in which there were very few books and very little time for reading . My ...
... Lewis Carroll " was , on the book's spine and title page . ) Like Alice , with whom I identified unquestionably , I plummeted headfirst down the rabbit hole and / or climbed boldly through the mirror into the looking - glass world and ...
... Lewis Carroll " deceased since 1898 preserved , as Auden said with such memorable bluntness , in the guts of the living . ) The first Wonderland poem , which is the first poem of my life , looks , to a contemporary adult eye , like ...
... Lewis Carroll , in whom the child - self abided through his celibate lifetime , understood instinctively the child's nervous propensity to laugh at the very things that arouse anxiety : injustice , abrupt death , disappear- ing , being ...
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TO A YOUNG WRITER | 23 |
WHAT SIN TO ME UNKNOWN | 37 |
NOTES ON FAILURE | 51 |
INSPIRATION | 75 |
THE ENIGMATIC ART OF SELFCRITICISM | 127 |
THE WRITERS STUDIO | 137 |
JCO AND I After Borges | 153 |
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