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To show and to tell : the craft of literary nonfiction /
- Title:
- To show and to tell : the craft of literary nonfiction /
- Author:
- Lopate, Phillip, 1943-
- Published:
- New York : 2013.
- Format:
- Book
- Institution:
- Emerson College
- Contents:
- The craft of personal narrative. The state of nonfiction today -- On the necessity of turning oneself into a character -- Reflection and retrospection : a pedagogic mystery story -- How do you end an essay? -- The uses of contrariety -- Imagination thin and thick -- Facts have implications : or, is nonfiction really fiction? -- On the ethics of writing about others -- Modesty and assertion -- On writers' journals -- The essay : exploration or argument? -- The made-up self : on the difficulty of turning oneself into a character -- Research and personal writing -- The lyric essay -- The personal essay in the age of Facebook -- Studies of practitioners. Lamb's Essays of Elia -- Hazlitt on hating -- How I became an Emersonian -- Teaching James Baldwin -- Edward Hoagland : the dean of American essayists -- The memoir and its critics : two takes.
- Online access:
- No online access
- Library holdings:
-
Emerson Main Stacks
PN145 .L67 2013
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Available