To show and to tell : the craft of literary nonfiction /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Free Press,
2013.
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| Edition: | 1st Free Press trade paperback ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- The craft of personal narrative. The state of nonfiction today
- On the necessity of turning oneself into a character
- Reflection and retrospection : a pedagogic mystery story
- How do you end an essay?
- The uses of contrariety
- Imagination thin and thick
- Facts have implications : or, is nonfiction really fiction?
- On the ethics of writing about others
- Modesty and assertion
- On writers' journals
- The essay : exploration or argument?
- The made-up self : on the difficulty of turning oneself into a character
- Research and personal writing
- The lyric essay
- The personal essay in the age of Facebook
- Studies of practitioners. Lamb's Essays of Elia
- Hazlitt on hating
- How I became an Emersonian
- Teaching James Baldwin
- Edward Hoagland : the dean of American essayists
- The memoir and its critics : two takes.