Overview

This introduction to creative nonfiction examines the building blocks of nonfiction prose one by one, illustrating how individual voice and narrative strategies delineate this literary form from conventional nonfiction. Individual chapters are devoted to detail and description, characterization and scene, distinctive voice, intimate point-of-view, and the various ways in which writers discover the significance or universality of their work. Essays from contemporary nonfiction writers such as Henry Louis Gates, Norma Elia Cantú, Pico Iyer, Joan Didion, and others are integrated directly into the text to illustrate concepts.

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Author:   Dinty Moore
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Pearson
Dimensions:   Width: 15.30cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.382kg
ISBN:  

9780321277619

ISBN 10:   0321277619
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   14 April 2006
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface I. ABOUT CREATIVE NONFICTION 1. True Stories, Innovative Forms Basic Forms of Creative Nonfiction The Art of Narrative The Narrative Craft The Truth of the Matter Curiosity and Passion: The Indispensable Tools 2. What Makes Nonfiction Creative? A Way of Seeing More than “Just the Facts” Creative Nonfiction vs. Standard Journalism: An Illustration Honesty, Memory, and the Stranger in the Room Writing Prompts: What Is Creative Nonfiction? II. BUILDING BLOCKS OF CREATIVE NONFICTION 3. Building Blocks of Creative Nonfiction: Detail and Description Detail and Description Specific and Particular “Injection,” Jane Armstrong Revising for Detail and Description Writing Prompts: Detail and Description 4. Building Blocks of Creative Nonfiction: Characterization and Scene Characterization through Dialogue “A Dramatic Dogalog,” Art Homer Characterization through Action “Drink It,” Patricia Ann McNair Scene: Letting the Facts Speak for Themselves Revising for Scene Writing Prompts: Characterization through Dialogue, Characterization through Action 5. Building Blocks of Creative Nonfiction: Distinctive Voice and Intimate Point-of-View Distinctive Voice “Pop Art,” Brian Doyle Intimate Point-of-View “Sunday,” Henry Louis Gates Revising for Voice and Point-of-View Writing Prompts: Distinctive Voice and Intimate Point-of-View 6. Building Blocks of Creative Nonfiction: Discovery What You “Make of It” “Solstice,” Richard Terrill “Tino and Papi,” Norma Elia Cantu Discovery and Details Revising for Discovery Writing Prompts: Discovery III. FROM BUILDING BLOCKS TO COMPLETE ESSAY 7. The Memoir Essay Examining the Memoir Essay “Genesis,” Bret Lott “Thumb-Sucking Girl,” Sonja Livingston Writing Your Own Memoir Essay But “Who Cares?” Writing Prompts for Memoir 8. The Literary Journalism Essay Examining the Literary Journalism Essay “Hope,” Brian Doyle Excerpt from“Where Worlds Collide,” Pico Iyer Writing Your Own Literary Journalism Essay Writing Prompts for Literary Journalism 9. The Personal Essay Examining the Personal Essay “The Meadow,” James Galvin “In Bed,” Joan Didion Writing Your Own Personal Essay Writing Prompts for the Personal Essay 10. Revision and Narrative Structure On Serious Revision Revision and Narrative Structure Braiding Collage Frame Other Strategies Writing Prompts for Narrative Structure IV. The Anthology The Brief Essay Laurie Drummond, “Alive” Lori Jakiela, “You’ll Love the Way We Fly Lee Martin, “Dumber Than” Deborah Tall, “The Stories Tell the Land” The Conventional Length Essay James Baldwin, “Notes of a Native Son” Jo Ann Beard, “Out There” Judith Ortiz Cofer, “Silent Dancing” Annie Dillard, “Living Like Weasels” Tony Earley, “Somehow Form a Family” Philip Gerard, “What They Don’t Tell You About Hurricanes” Lucy Grealy, “Mirrorings” Lee Gutkind, “Difficult Decisions” Robin Hemley, “Reading History to My Mother” Edward Hoagland, “The Courage of Turtles” Pico Iyer, “Where Worlds Collide” Jamaica Kincaid, “Biography of a Dress” Bret Lott, “Brothers” John McPhee, “The Search for Marvin Gardens” Naomi Shihab Nye, “Three Pokes of a Thistle” Scott Russell Sanders, “Buckeye” David Sedaris, “The Drama Bug” Richard Selzer, “The Knife” David Shields, “42 Tattoos” Amy Tan, “Mother Tongue” Terry Tempest Williams, “The Clan of the One-Breasted Women” Essays on the Craft of Creative Nonfiction Annie Dillard, “Seeing” Tracy Kidder, “Making the Truth Believable” Bret Lott, “Toward a Definition of Creative Nonfiction” Mimi Schwartz, “Memoir? Fiction? Where’s the Line?”

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