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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... was a sign of her adult author- ity, the jarring noise of the bell, the thrusting, hacking gesture of her muscled right arm as she vigorously shook it.) Behind the school , down a slope of briars and jungle 4 the faith of a writer.
... adults. My earliest fictional characters were zestfully if crudely drawn, upright chickens and cats engaged in various dramatic confrontations; the title of my first full-length novel, on tablet paper, was The Cat House. (Somewhere, The ...
... adult because it would not have occurred to me to mention it to any adult, was that the mysterious world of books was divided into two types: those for children, and those for adults. Reading for children, in our grade-school textbooks ...
... adult writing was a form of wisdom and power , difficult to comprehend , but unassailable . These were no chil- dren's easy - reading fantasies but the real thing , voices of adult authenticity . I forced myself to read for long minutes ...
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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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