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  • Imagination and Idealism in John Updike's Fiction

    by Michial Farmer ...
    This book looks past the frequently discussed autobiographical nature of John Updike's fiction to consider the role in Updike's work of the most powerful and peculiar human faculty: the imagination. Michial Farmer argues that, while the imagination is for Updike a means of human survival and a necessary component of human flourishing, it also has a destructive, darker side, in which it shades into ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Updike and Politics

    New Considerations

    by Matthew Shipe, Scott Dill, Marshall Boswell, Michial Farmer, Ethan Fishman, Yoav Fromer, Louis Gordon, Jo Gill, Sylvie Mathé0, Takashi Nakatani1, Judith Newman2, Pradipta Sengupta3, Biljana Dojcinovic4, Aleksandra Vukotic5, Kirk Curnutt6, James Schiff7 ...
    Series series Politics, Literature, & Film
    Presenting the first interdisciplinary consideration of his political thought, Updike and Politics: New Considerations establishes a new scholarly foundation for assessing one of the most recognized and significant American writers of the post-1945 period. This book brings together a diverse group of American and international scholars, including contributors from Japan, India, Israel, and Europe. ... Read more

    $126.39 CAD

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  • Writing Fiction

    A Guide to Narrative Craft

    by Janet Burroway, Elizabeth Stuckey-French, Ned Stuckey-French ...
    Series series Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
    This updated edition of the classic, comprehensive guide to creative writing features new topics and writing prompts, contemporary examples, and more.A creative writer's shelf should hold at least three essential books: a dictionary, a style guide, and Janet Burroway's Writing Fiction. This best-selling classic is the most widely used creative writing text in America, and for decades it has helped ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Modern Library Writer's Workshop

    A Guide to the Craft of Fiction

    by Stephen Koch ...
    “Make [your] characters want something right away—even if it’s only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.” —Kurt Vonnegut“‘The cat sat on the mat’ is not the beginning of a story, but ‘the cat sat on the dog’s mat’ is.” —John Le CarréNothing is more inspiring for a beginning writer than listening to masters of the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Faith of a Writer

    Life, Craft, Art

    by Joyce Carol Oates ...
    A tribute to the brilliant craftsmanship of one of our most distinguished writers, providing valuable insight into her inspiration and her methodJoyce 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 ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Practice of Poetry

    Writing Exercises From Poets Who Teach

    Edited by Robin Behn, Chase Twichell ...
    A distinctive collection of more than 90 effective poetry-writing exercises combined with corresponding essays to inspire writers of all levels.The Practice of Poetry is the first handbook for poets to combine poetry-writing exercises with illuminating personal essays by each contributor. The editors, Robin Behn and Chase Twichell, who are themselves poets and teachers of creative writing, have ... Read more

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  • Why Poetry

    by Matthew Zapruder ...
    "Zapruder is the ideal narrator to debunk mistaken ideas about the art and claim that the ways we teach poetry are what prevent us from enjoying it." — San Francisco ChronicleIn Why Poetry, award-winning poet Matthew Zapruder takes on what it is that poetry—and poetry alone—can do. Zapruder argues that the way we have been taught to read poetry is the very thing that prevents us from enjoying it. ... Read more

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  • On Writers & Writing

    by John Gardner ...
    The classic work on the art of fiction by the "refreshingly unpredictable" novelist and literary critic ( Publishers Weekly)In this posthumously published collection of his essays and reviews, acclaimed novelist John Gardner discusses the craft of fiction writing, taking to task some of his best-known contemporaries in the process. Gardner criticizes some for writing disingenuous fiction, and ... Read more

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  • John Gardner on Writing

    On Becoming a Novelist, On Writers & Writing, and On Moral Fiction

    by John Gardner ...
    Three books in one volume: Advice and reflections on modern fiction from "one of the greatest creative writing teachers we've ever had" (Frederick Busch).In On Becoming a Novelist, John Gardner advises the aspiring fiction author on such topics as the value of creative writing workshops, the developmental stages of literary growth, and the inevitable experience of writer's block. Drawn from his ... Read more

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  • About Writing

    7 Essays, 4 Letters, 5 Interviews

    by Samuel R. Delany ...
    From the four-time Nebula Award–winning novelist and literary critic, essential reading for the creative writer.Award-winning novelist Samuel R. Delany has written a book for creative writers to place alongside E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Lajos Egri's Art of Dramatic Writing. Taking up specifics (When do flashbacks work, and when should you avoid them? How do you make characters both ... Read more

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  • On Writing

    by Eudora Welty ...
    Eudora Welty was one of the twentieth century’s greatest literary figures. For as long as students have been studying her fiction as literature, writers have been looking to her to answer the profound questions of what makes a story good, a novel successful, a writer an artist. On Writing presents the answers in seven concise chapters discussing the subjects most important to the narrative craft, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Views from the Loft

    A Portable Writer's Workshop

    Edited by Daniel Slager ...
    "Packed with inspirational, useful, and thought-provoking essays on the craft of writing from some of the best writers around." — Minneapolis Star TribuneTeachers, exercises, mentors, critiques, humor, and inspiration: these form the fuel all writers need when they get down to work every day. For decades the Loft Literary Center has provided this fuel to an enormous community of writers. Views ... Read more

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