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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... voice, the inflated self-importance of the Seer. Bad as it is to en- counter it in the world, it's worse to encounter it in oneself! The spirit of The Faith of a Writer is meant to be undog- matic, provisional. More about the process of ...
... voices , we work to create art that will speak to others who know nothing of us . In our very obliqueness to one another , an unexpected intimacy is born . The individual voice is the communal voice . The regional voice is the universal ...
... voices of adult authenticity . I forced myself to read for long minutes at a time , finely printed prose on yellowed , dog - eared pages , retaining very little but utterly captivated by the strangeness of another's voice sounding in my ...
Life, Craft, Art Joyce Carol Oates. It was the first - person voice , the ( seemingly ) unmediated voice , that struck me as truth - telling . For some reason , very few books for children are in the first - person voice ; Lewis Car ...
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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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