The True Subject: Writers on Life and Craft

Lingua: inglese

Editore: Graywolf Pr, 1993

1555971814 / 9781555971816

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151 pages. Selected lectures from writers' conferences on the art and craft of finding a nd using artistic inspiration feature the works of Jane Smiley, Gary Snyder, Mir oslav Holub, and Mary Clearman Blew Review These fourteen thought-provoked essay s originated as lectures delivered at a variety of writers conferences. In Can M others Think?, Jane Smiley addresses the failure of literature to include mother s and argues that such authors as Toni Morrison, Sue Miller, Alice Walker, and L ouise Erdrich are creating a new literature, the literature of real, live mother hood. Gary Snyder, at the Art of the Wild Conference in Squaw Valley, claims tha t like ecosystems, consciousness, mind, imagination, and language are fundamenta lly wild, while over at the Paris Writers Conference, Julian Gloag laments the t entativeness of students who haven't been trained to think. Michael Dennis Brown e proposes that it is a sense of constantly failing to reach perfection that pro pels us to continue writing; Donald Justice, similarly, discusses the elusivenes s of the ideal. Thanks to editor Kurt Brown, we can consume the lean, nourishing meat of the conferences without having first to pick our way through the fat. - -Jane Steinberg From Publishers Weekly This anthology of 14 essays, first delive red as lectures at several writers' conferences around the country, contains som e wisdom and inspiration but lacks coherence. Jane Smiley reflects thoughtfully on the extreme paucity of mothers, and of the tradition of a maternal vision in our literary culture, and suggests that a new literature of real, live motherhoo d is being forged. Christopher Merrill, reporting on a writers' conference in Sl ovenia, finds the famous panelists ignoring the nearby Bosnian war and instead h.…

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Titolo
The True Subject: Writers on Life and Craft
Autore
Kurt Brown (Editor)
Editore
Graywolf Pr
Anno di pubblicazione
1993
Condizione
Very Good
Rilegatura
Paperback
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
1555971814
ISBN 13
9781555971816
Dimensioni
14.6cm x 1.3cm x 22.9cm
Cataloghi dei venditori
Performing Arts

Book Express (NZ)

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