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Product Identifiers
PublisherMcGraw-Hill Higher Education
ISBN-100072512784
ISBN-139780072512786
eBay Product ID (ePID)2355503
Product Key Features
Number of Pages464 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameTell It Slant : Writing and Shaping Creative Nonfiction
SubjectRhetoric, Composition & Creative Writing
Publication Year2003
TypeTextbook
AuthorBrenda Miller, Suzanne Paola
Subject AreaLanguage Arts & Disciplines
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight18.8 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2003-051377
Dewey Edition22
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal808/.042
Table Of ContentHow to Use This Book Introduction: Where to Begin? Part I: The Foundations of Creative Nonfiction Chapter One: The Basics of Good Writing in Any Form Scene Versus Exposition Specificity and Detail Developing Character Dialogue Point of View Image and Metaphor The Rhythm of Your Sentences Try It Suggestions for Further Reading Chapter Two: The Particular Challenges of Creative Nonfiction The "I" and The Eye: Framing Experience The Autobiographical Act The Pact with the Reader: Creating Trust The Permutations of "Truth" Cueing the Reader Some Pitfalls to Avoid: "Revenge Prose" and "The Therapist's Couch." Try It Suggestions for Further Reading Part II: Unearthing Your Material Chapter Three: The Body of Memory The Earliest Memory Metaphorical Memory "Muscle Memory" The Five Senses of Memory Try It Suggestions for Further Reading Chapter Four: Writing the Family Situating Yourself in Relationship to Family The Use of Form The Writer as Biographer The Obstacle Course Permission to Speak Bearing Witness Try It Suggestions for Further Reading Chapter Five: "Taking Place": Writing the Physical World Start Looking Writing About Home Setting Scenes: Place As Character Writing About Nature Writing About the Environment Witnesses to our World Travel Writing Try It Chapter Six: Gathering the Threads of History Our Historical, Universal Selves The Ontological Layer You Are A "Privileged Observer" The Moose At The Window The "When" In Addition to "What" Try It Suggestions for Further Reading Chapter Seven: Writing the Arts The Visual Arts The Moving Image Arts Music Literature: The "Reading Narrative" Try It Suggestions for Further Reading Chapter Eight: Writing the Larger World Turning Outward: Finding Your Material Outside of the Self Science The Layperson's Approach The Expert's Approach Sports Writing The Myriad Things Around Us The Essay of Ideas Try It Suggestions for Further Readings Part III: The Forms of Creative Nonfiction Chapter Nine: The Personal Essay The Personal Essay Tradition The Ways Essays Work Memoir Literary or New Journalism The Sketch or Portrait The Persuasive Essay Humor Capacity of the Personal Essay Try It Suggestions for Further Reading Chapter Ten: The Lyric Essay What is the Lyric Essay? The Role of Intuition Finding the "Container": Forms of the Lyric Essay Flash Nonfiction Collage The Braided Essay The "Hermit Crab" Essay Try It Suggestions for Further Reading Chapter Eleven: The Elements of Personal Reportage Cultivating The Need To Know Using Fact As Metaphor Researching a Key Fact Or Detail Working With Immersion Developing Interview Skills Developing Print Research Skills Winnowing Down Try It Suggestions for Further Reading Chapter Twelve: The Writing Process and Revision The Drafting Process Global Revision vs. Line Editing Awareness of Audience Three Quick Fixes for Stronger Prose An Example of the Writing Process Try It Suggestions for Further Readings Last Words Part IVThe Anthology Preface to the Anthology Atwood, Margaret, "Nine Beginnings" Baker, Will, "My Children Explain the Big Issues" Baldwin, James, "Notes of a Native Son" Bausch, Richard, "So Long Ago" Beard, JoAnn, "The Fourth State of Matter" Berry, Wendell, "Enterance to the Woods" Cooper, Bernard, "The Fine Art of Sighing" Didion, Joan, "Goodbye To All That" Dillard, Annie, "Total Eclipse" Duncan, David James, "The Mickey Mantle Koan" Fisher, M.F.K., "The Measure of My Powers" and "A Thing Shar
SynopsisDemonstrating the range of creative nonfiction from memoir to travel writing to the lyric essay, Tell It Slant combines practical guidance with an illustrative anthology of 34 essays from Margaret Atwood, David Sedaris, E.B. White, Virginia Woolf, and others. The result is a stimulating collection of writing and activities that makes it easy and enjoyable for students to begin to write and to try new modes of writing.
LC Classification NumberPE1408.M548 2003
