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Creative Writing: Four Genres in Brief - Paperback By Starkey, David - GOOD
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- ISBN
- 9780312468668
- Book Title
- Creative Writing : Four Genres in Brief
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Publisher
- Bedford/Saint Martin's
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.5in
- Genre
- Language Arts & Disciplines, Literary Collections
- Topic
- General, Rhetoric, Composition & Creative Writing
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- 6.5in
- Item Weight
- 14.9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 339 Pages
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Creative Writing: Four Genres in Brief offers practical solutions to some of the main challenges of learning to write poetry, fiction, drama, and nonfiction over the short span of a single creative writing course. In a lively, accessible style, David Starkey concisely explains the basics of composing and crafting each genre, To make the best use of limited time, he provides only very short models of literature to analyze, admire, and emulate, To inspire creativity and motivate writing, he offers many inventive and imaginative writing prompts and projects. Book jacket.
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Bedford/Saint Martin's
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0312468660
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9780312468668
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Book Title
Creative Writing : Four Genres in Brief
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General, Rhetoric, Composition & Creative Writing
Publication Year
2008
Genre
Language Arts & Disciplines, Literary Collections
Number of Pages
339 Pages
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Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
6.5in
Item Weight
14.9 Oz
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Table of Content
Preface: A Few Words to Instructors A Few Things You Should Know About Creative Writing"Beliefs about the Teaching of Writing" Final Words 1. Writing PoetryA Few Things You Should Know about Poetry The Elements of Poetry The Short Poem: Three Models Gail White, "My Personal Recollections of Not Being Asked to the Prom" Ruth Stone, "Winter" Fanny Howe, " 9/11" Lines and Stanzas Meter and Rhythm The Music of Poetry Images, Symbols and Figurative Language Diction, Syntax and the Language of Poetry Poetic Forms Sonnet Villanelle Rondeau Sestina Cinquain Pantoum Ghazal Prose Poem Getting Started Writing Poetry Kick-Starts: Beginning Your Poems An Anthology of Short Poems Sherman Alexie, "Postcards to Columbus" Paula Gunn Allen, "Zen Americana" Jimmy Santiago Baca, "Bells" Charles Bernstein, "Frequently Unasked Questions" Gwendolyn Brooks, "The Ballad of Rudolph Reed" Lorna Dee Cervantes, "Poem for the Young White Man Who Asked Me How I, an Intelligent, Well-Read Person, Could Believe in the War between Races" Wanda Coleman, "Brute Strength" Billy Collins, "Nostalgia" Elaine Equi, "A Quiet Poem" Ray González, "Praise the Tortilla, Praise Menudo, Praise Chorizo" Barbara Guest, "Noisetone" Joy Harjo, "Santa Fe" Allison Joseph, "On Being Told I Don't Speak like a Black Person" Galway Kinnell, "That Silent Evening" Ann Lauterbach, "Boy Sleeping" Naomi Shihab Nye, "Lunch in Nablus City Park" Gary Snyder, "I Went into the Maverick Bar" Gary Soto, "What Is Your Major?" Adrienne Su, "The English Canon" Virgil Suárez, "The Ways of Guilt" James Tate, "Teaching the Ape to Write Poems" Natasha Tretheway, "My Mother Dreams Another Country" David Wojahn, "The Assassination of John Lennon as Depicted by the Madame Tussaud Wax Museum, Niagara Falls, Ontario, 1987" 2. Writing the Short-Short StoryA Few Things You Should Know about the Short-Short Story The Elements of Fiction The Short-Short Story: Three Models Isaac Babel, "Crossing the River Zbrucz" Donald Barthelme, "The Baby" Roberta Allen, "Marzipan" Structure and Design Creating Characters Writing Dialogue Setting the Scene Deciding on Point of View, Developing Tone and Style First-Person Point of View Second-Person Point of View Third-Person Limited Point of View Third-Person Omniscient Point of View Tense &
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