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Gornick Vivian
The Situation And The Story The Art Of Personal Narrative
The Situation And The Story The Art Of Personal Narrative
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Description: A guide to the art of personal writing by the author of Fierce Attachments and The End of the Novel of Love All narrative writing must pull from the raw material of life a tale that will shape experience transform event deliver a bit of wisdom. In a story or a novel the " I" who tells this tale can be and often is an unreliable narrator but in nonfiction the reader must always be persuaded that the narrator is speaking truth. How does one pull from one's own boring agitated self the truth - speaker who will tell the story a personal narrative needs to tell? That is the question The Situation and the Story asks - - and answers. Taking us on a reading tour of some of the best memoirs and essays of the past hundred years Gornick traces the changing idea of self that has dominated the century and demonstrates the enduring truth - speaker to be found in the work of writers as diverse as Edmund Gosse Joan Didion Oscar Wilde James Baldwin or Marguerite Duras. This book which grew out of fifteen years teaching in MF a programs is itself a model of the lucid inteligence that has made Gornick one of our most admired writers of ninfiction. In it she teaches us to write by teaching us how to read: how to recognize truth when we hear it in the writing of others and in our own.
Title: The Situation And The Story The Art Of Personal Narrative
Author(s): Gornick Vivian
Publisher: Farrar Straus And Giroux
Barcode: 9780374528584
Pages: 192 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 10/11/2002
Category: Literary Studies: General
Description: A guide to the art of personal writing by the author of Fierce Attachments and The End of the Novel of Love All narrative writing must pull from the raw material of life a tale that will shape experience transform event deliver a bit of wisdom. In a story or a novel the " I" who tells this tale can be and often is an unreliable narrator but in nonfiction the reader must always be persuaded that the narrator is speaking truth. How does one pull from one's own boring agitated self the truth - speaker who will tell the story a personal narrative needs to tell? That is the question The Situation and the Story asks - - and answers. Taking us on a reading tour of some of the best memoirs and essays of the past hundred years Gornick traces the changing idea of self that has dominated the century and demonstrates the enduring truth - speaker to be found in the work of writers as diverse as Edmund Gosse Joan Didion Oscar Wilde James Baldwin or Marguerite Duras. This book which grew out of fifteen years teaching in MF a programs is itself a model of the lucid inteligence that has made Gornick one of our most admired writers of ninfiction. In it she teaches us to write by teaching us how to read: how to recognize truth when we hear it in the writing of others and in our own.
Title: The Situation And The Story The Art Of Personal Narrative
Author(s): Gornick Vivian
Publisher: Farrar Straus And Giroux
Barcode: 9780374528584
Pages: 192 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 10/11/2002
Category: Literary Studies: General