The Story About the Story: Great Writers Explore Great

The Story About the Story: Great Writers Explore Great Literature
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With essays that are poignant, smart, suggestive, intellectual, funny, sassy, scathing, laudatory, wistful, and hopeful, THE STORY ABOUT THE STORY offers lessons from a remarkable range of celebrated authors that amount to an invaluable course on both how to write and read well.
Editor J. C. Hallman has pored through countless collected essays of notable authors, searching for pieces in which the author approaches literature from a personal angle. The results are a fantastic, provocative, intelligent, and, at times, hilarious discussion of literature and life. Never before collected in a single volume, the essays in The Story About the Story feature lively discussions of great literature by some of the most prominent authors of all time. With over thirty essays written by authors as diverse as Oscar Wilde and Virginia Woolf to Cynthia Ozick and Salman Rushdie, this collection offers an invaluable course on literature as well as a look into â€œCreative Criticism,â€ a form of critical essay that involves a personal perspective. Writers such as William Gass, Wallace Stegner, Albert Camus, Milan Kundera, Susan Sontag, James Wood, E. B. White, Herman Hesse, Cynthia Ozick, Walter Kirn, and Michael Chabon discuss the work of such luminaries as Marcel Proust, J. D. Salinger, Franz Kafka, John Keats, Malcolm Lowry, T. S. Eliot, Anton Chekhov, Robert Lowell, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Henry David Thoreau, Cormac McCarthy, Truman Capote, and John Steinbeck.
Country USA
Brand Tin House Books
Manufacturer Tin House Books
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 0980243696_used
ReleaseDate 2009-09-29
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780980243697

Country	USA
Brand	Tin House Books
Manufacturer	Tin House Books
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	0980243696_used
ReleaseDate	2009-09-29
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780980243697

The Story About the Story: Great Writers Explore Great Literature

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