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The shell game : writers play with borrowed forms /
"Within the recent explosion of creative nonfiction, a new type of form is quietly emerging, what Brenda Miller calls "hermit crab essays." The Shell Game is an anthology of these intriguing essays that borrow their structures from ordinary, everyday sources: a recipe, a crossword puz...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lincoln [Nebraska] :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2018]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Grand Theft Auto; Ok, Cupid; Rubikâ#x80;#x99;s Cube, Six Twisted Paragraphs; Solving My Way to Grandma; Genome Tome; As Is; Falling in Love with a Glass House; Son of Mr. Green Jeans; Snakes & Ladders; Math 1619; Stagecraft; We Regret to Inform You; The Six Answers on theBack of a Trivia Card; Piecing the Quilt of Valor; Self- Portrait as a 1970s Cineplex Movie Theatre (an Abecedarian); The Forgetting Test; #miscarriage.exe; SECTION 404; The Body (an Excerpt); Questionnaire for My Grandfather; The Petoskey Catechism, 1958.
- What Signifies (Three Parables)The Marriage License; The Heart as a Torn Muscle; The Spectrum (of Miracles and Mysteries); â#x80;#x9C;Easy as Pie, â#x80;#x9D; Thatâ#x80;#x99;s a Lie; Outline toward a Theory of the Mineversus the Mind and the Harvard Outline; The Clockwise Detorsion of Snails; Postscript; Source Acknowledgments; Contributors; Contributor's Note.