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The writing life /
Fifty essays and vignettes centered on the transforming magic of literature and the teaching and writing of it come together in a collection by the critically acclaimed author of Flights of Angels and the National Book Award winning Victory over Japan. Celebrated author Ellen Gilchrist has played ma...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2005.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Life:
- The Middle Way
- The Shakespeare Group
- How Books Still Change Our Lives
- Casting My Lot with the Gypsies
- The Consolations of Art
- The Only Constant Is Change, and Yet, I Still Won't Use a Computer
- How I Got Stronger and Smarter Instead of Stupider and Sadder
- Writing:
- How I Wrote a Book of Short Stories in Three Months
- Living in New York City
- The Sinking Ship
- Breaking the Rules
- In the Weather of the Heart
- A Writer Should Be Able to Write Anything
- Everyone Wants to Be a Writer
- "You Always Use Setbacks to Help You Play Better"
- Write What You Know
- Choosing the Books
- Learning to Teach Writing by Watching a Great Dance Teacher
- Crisis in the Creative Writing Program
- Everyone Thinks They Are a Writer
- Why Is Rewriting So Hard?
- Sunday Morning
- Eudora Welty
- Another Hard Thing for a Writer to Learn to Handle
- How I Invented Traceleen
- How to Move Characters from One Place to Another
- How to Become Inspired
- Decons
- Learning to Teach
- The War with the Squirrels
- What They Write About
- Teaching:
- Teaching, A Journal
- Teaching, A Journal (Continued)
- My Third Year
- Worrying
- Students
- The Ice Storm
- Creative Nonfiction (as Fiction)
- The Semester from Hell
- Drunks, Dope Addicts, and Losers, Characters My Students Give Me
- How Can I Help These Students Learn to Write?
- Onward
- Hitting a Snag in the Teaching Game
- Rip Van Winkle and the Unwanted Wings
- Teaching, A Journal (Continued)
- After Six Weeks of Classes
- The Geology Field Trip
- Monday at Dawn
- The Big Question
- The Tar Baby.