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BOOK
Title Reading like a writer : a guide for people who love books and for those who want to write them / Francine Prose
Imprint New York : Harper Perennial, 2007, c2006

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 Bellevue:Vuxen facklitteratur (800-899)  808 engelska    CHECK SHELF  ---
Edition 1st Harper Perennial ed
Descript 273, 28 p. ; 22 cm
Content Close reading -- Words -- Sentences -- Paragraphs -- Narration -- Character -- Dialogue -- Details -- Gesture -- Learning from Chekhov -- Reading for courage -- Books to be read immediately
Note Before there were workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, says author and teacher Prose. Prose invites you on a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters. She reads the very best writers and discovers why their work has endured. She takes pleasure in the magnificent sentences of Philip Roth and the breathtaking paragraphs of Isaac Babel; she is moved by the brilliant characterization in George Eliot's Middlemarch. She looks to John Le Carré for how to advance plot through dialogue, to Flannery O'Connor for the cunning use of the telling detail, and to James Joyce and Katherine Mansfield for clever examples of how to employ gesture to create character. She cautions readers to slow down and pay attention to words, the raw material out of which literature is crafted.--From publisher description
Subject Böcker och läsande
Kreativt skrivande
Retorik
Engelska språket
English language -- Rhetoric
Anglais (langue) -- Rhétorique.
Creative writing
Authors -- Books and reading
Écrivains -- Livres et lecture.
Authors -- Books and reading.
Books and reading.
Creative writing.
English language -- Rhetoric.
Classmark 808.02
G:df
G:oa
Fe.06
ISBN/ISSN 9780060777050
0060777052
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