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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... mysterious counter-world of literature that transcends artificial borders of time, place, language, national identity. Out of the solitariness of the individual this culture somehow emerges, variegated, ever-alluring, ever-evolving ...
... mysterious and com- munal called " culture ” —and that this yearning is as strong in our species as the yearning to reproduce the species . Through the local or regional , through our individual voices , we work to create art that will ...
... mysterious world of books was divided into two types: those for children, and those for adults. Reading for children, in our grade-school textbooks, was simple-minded in its vocabulary, grammar, and content; it was usually about unreal ...
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... mysterious , cruel poem for a child to decode , and to memorize , it blows up the miniature to the size of an epic , and makes of the injustice of cat / mouse relations something jokey . In the Alice books there is a yearning for ...
Inhoudsopgave
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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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