Graywolf press jun 2009 (2 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Fiction imagines for us a stopping point from which life can be seen as intelligible,' asserts Joan Silber in The Art of Time in Fiction. The end point of a story determines its meaning, and one of the main tasks a writer faces is to define the duration of a plot. Silber uses wide-ranging examples from F. Scott Fitzgerald, Chinua Achebe, and Arundhati Roy, among others, to illustrate five key ways in which time unfolds in fiction. In clear-eyed prose, Silber elucidates a tricky but vital aspect of the art of fiction.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - With intelligence and precision, Ellen Bryant Voigt parses out the deft and alluring shape of poetic language in The Art of Syntax. Through brilliant readings of poems by Bishop, Frost, Kunitz, Lawrence, and others, Voigt examines the signature musical scoring writers deploy to orchestrate meaning. 'This structure-this architecture-is the essential drama of the poem's composition,' she argues. The Art of Syntax is an indispensable book on the writer's craft by one of America's best and most influential poets and teachers.…