Isbn: 9780713991734 - the practice of writing: essays,lectures,reviews and a diary (21 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Good. When it comes to the craft of writing, bestselling novelist David Lodge finds much to celebrate, analyze, and confess. In this absorbing collection of seventeen essays he ponders the work of writers he particularly admires, current and past trends in literary style, and the mechanics of the craft itself. Revealing, enlightening pieces on Graham Greene, James Joyce, Kingsley Amis and Anthony Burgess are interspersed with personal reflections on Lodge's own artistic and technical struggles. His insights into the contemporary world of publishing, and mass culture in general, are both trenchant and refreshing.As entertaining as it is edifying, this collection of fine writing about writing will prove valuable to students of the art as well as to Lodge's many, loyal readers who wish to know more about his own work.…

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hardcover. Zustand: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1st. 8vo, 340 pp.

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hardcover. Zustand: fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. 340 pages, 8vo, cloth-backed boards. New York: The Penguin Press, 1997. Fine copy in a fine dust wrapper.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. Penguin/Allen Lane (New York), 1997. First American edition. Hardbound. Fine/Fine. A tight clean copy. LITERATURE.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Viking Adult 1997-01-01 00:00:00 Binding: Hardcover dj in mylar unclipped; 340 pp. In this absorbing volume, the acclaimed novelist turns his incisive skills to his own profession, saluting the eminent practioners of fiction who have influenced his writing, and explaining how literary and dramatic works are made and the many different factors that come into play in this process.…

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Penguin Press, 1997. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good with light spotting to top page ends. Dust jacket is very good with sticker on back cover.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.…

Zustand: Very Good. 1997. American ed. Hardcover. Clean copy with minor shelf wear. Fine in fine dustjacket. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Zustand: Very Good. 1997. American ed. Hardcover. Clean copy with minor shelf wear. Fine in fine dustjacket. . . . .

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Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. 1st Edition. First American edition, 1st printing. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in AS NEW condition. "In this absorbing volume, acclaimed novelist David Lodge turns his incisive critical skills to his own profession, saluting the eminent practitioners of fiction who have influenced his writing, and explaining how literary and dramatic works are made and the many different factors that come into play in this process. [] The constant theme running through these essays is the mysterious process of creativity. Lodge discusses at length the work of writers he particularly admires--Graham Greene, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Henry Green, Kingsley Amis, Vladimir Nabokov, and Anthony Burgess. He addresses the situation of the contemporary novelist, both aesthetically and institutionally, and describes the pleasures of the novelistic text. In delineating the different techniques required to work on a novel and a screenplay, he draws on the experience of adapting his own Nice Work and Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit for television, bringing a refreshingly expert candor to the problems that arise between the idea and the performance. The essays conclude with revealing extracts from the diary he kept as his play, The Writing Game, made its way to the footlights." [jacket copy] "Lodge, a wry and stylish British novelist and former university professor, has collected a fair sample of his literary criticism and re-formed it into an insightful and surprisingly unified look at the craft of writing. He says flat out that this is not a book of literary theory but an examination of the way writers go about their work. His aim, he writes, is 'to demystify and shed light on the creative process, to explain how literary and dramatic works are made, and to describe the many different factors, not always under the control of the writer, that came into play in the process.' The result is a book that should be required reading in any creative writing class not bogged down in dogma. Although his nonfiction writing style is not as free of its academic roots as he would like to think and his outlook is not as satiric as readers of his novels might expect, here is a collection that is both engaging and useful."--Publishers Weekly. Pristine hardcover w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding, wrapped in a bright-as-new jacket. Quite presentable.…

Hardcover. 8vo. Pp: xi, 340. First edition. Colour illustrated dust jacket. Speckled boards quarter bound in black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Inscribed to Edward Lowbury, poet.ISBN: 0713991739 As new boards in very good plus dust jacket with slightly creased top edge.

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