enigmas and arrivals an anthology of commonwealth writing

On Writing Short Stories

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Bailey, Tom, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, USA, On Writing Short Stories offers a fascinating introduction to writing fiction and the short story by bringing together 9 original essays by professional writers and 30 exemplars of short fiction. The first part features original essays by well-known authors such as Francine Prose, Joyce Carol Oates, and Andre Dubus that take the student through the process of writing These essays focus on the characteristics and craft of the short story and its writer, and take the student from the workshopping process all the way through the experience of working with agents and publishers. The second part of the text is an anthology of stories-many referred to in the essays-that gives readers dynamic examples of technique brought to life. In this second edition, Bailey brings the text up-to-date with new and revised essays and a freshened anthology that retains many of the classics, but adds in new styles and diverse voices-from short short fiction to the postcolonial writing of non-Western authors. In doing so, Bailey gives readers a broader scope of the short fiction landscape. The first part of the text now features Bailey's updated essay on the elements of fiction, which incorporates many of the nw stories in the anthology. There are also two new essays that expand on the workshopping process: "Whose Story Is It? The Anonymous Workshop" by Antonya Nelson and "After the Workshop: Transitional Drafts" by Robert Nelson. C. Michael Curtis also updates his essay on "Publishers and Publishing" from the first edition, bringing in the latest innovations in electronic and online publishing.

Lessons from a Lifetime of Writing: A Novelist Looks at His

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Morrell, David, PUBLISHER: Writers Digest Books, Bestselling novelist David Morrell provides insights and advice learned during thirty years of writing and selling novels--insider secrets that are sure to help writers achieve the next level of literary success, whether they're just beginning or already published With captivating anecdotes and thoughtful discussion, Morrell explores the basics of the writing craft, from structure and character to dialogue and style, allowing readers to look into the mind of an internationally-known bestselling novelist. He also examines how to get published, the business of writing and the steps for getting fiction translated into film. Acquista Ora

Finding the Words: Writers on Inspiration, Desire, War,

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Bland, Jared, PUBLISHER: Emblem Editions, Celebrated writers reveal surprising truths about the joys, challenges, and importance of finding the words, in this special fundraising anthology for PEN Canada. In this outstanding anthology, some of our most exciting writers -- novelists, journalists, memoirists, playwrights, and songwriters -- offer compelling and highly personal takes on the theme of finding the words. The result is an entertaining, provocative, thoughtful, and unexpected collection of pieces that reminds us of the power of language. Among the pieces in the anthology: Diana Athill and Alice Munro discuss the consequences of writing about other people; Gord Downie meditates on what it means to be a songwriter by considering one of his own songwriting heroes; Guy Gavriel Kay reflects on how his relationship with his own readers continues to change; Elizabeth Hay searches for inspiration in the fallow period between books; Rawi Hage meditates on writing rooted in the universal experience of exile; Pasha Malla presents a funny and confounding list of "rules for writers" solicited from non-writers; Heather O'Neill recalls writing some unusual letters for her illiterate father when she was a young girl; Michael Winter pieces together court transcripts, newspaper accounts, and other primary sources to take us into the dark heart of a real-life Newfoundland crime story.

Only connect / M. Spiazzi - M. Tavella

Only connect. A history and Anthology of english literature with american and Commonwealth insights The twentieth century Il libro appartiene alla collana Fabbri Editori per le scuole superiori. Buono stato di conservazione.

Unlocking Your Ideas

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Miller, Karen Hodges, PUBLISHER: Open Door Publications, Have you always dreamed of writing a book? Do you have an unfinished manuscript sitting in your bottom desk drawer? Author, editor and publisher Karen Hodges Miller will tell you how to take your dream of becoming an author and make it a reality. This simple step-by-step guide breaks down the process of writing a book into easy, bite-sized slices. You'll learn how to develop a marketable theme, organize your thoughts into chapters, and plan your writing schedule that allows you to complete your book in a timely way. This book will really help you unlock your ideas and become an author.

What It Takes: Writing in College

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Behrens, Laurence / Rosen, Leonard J., PUBLISHER: Longman Publishing Group, "What It Takes: Writing in College "covers the types of college writing assignments for which "Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum" is best known: the summary, the critique, and the synthesis, as well as analysis. This brief, handy guide introduces each of the strategies required for writing successful college papers, and takes students step by step through the process of writing based on source material.

The Brief Wadsworth Handbook

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Kirszner, Laurie G. / Mandell, Stephen R., PUBLISHER: Wadsworth Publishing Company, The most comprehensive brief handbook available, THE BRIEF WADSWORTH HANDBOOK, Sixth Edition, provides students with extensive coverage of rhetorical concerns, the writing and research process, writing and researching with computers, visual rhetoric, and other topics essential for 21st-century student writers. This versatile and proven text is a uniquely effective guide to help students develop the critical thinking, reading, and writing skills they need to become successful communicators in college and beyond. Practicing teachers and collaborative writing partners throughout their careers, Kirszner and Mandell bring an "in-the-trenches" pragmatic understanding of instructor and student needs to every page of this Sixth Edition. Acquista Ora

The Roots of Modern Magick: An Anthology

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Greenfield, A. H., PUBLISHER: Lulu Press, This is an anthology giving glimpses into 300 years of magical spirituality, from to , with suggestions for the future. The Authentic Magical Tradition is difficult to pin down, but the author has come closer than perhaps anyone in identifying the authentic tradition in the essential roots of magical spirituality today, and for tomorrow. 20 years of research and 40 years of experience in this area identifies the author as a major historian of the magical authentic tradition.

Real Stories: The All-Inclusive Text Book for Developmental

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Ortner, Toni, PUBLISHER: Backinprint.com, "Real Stories" is writing and reading text that works. The method is classroom-tested and designed to meet the needs of multi-cultural high school students. It contains three sections: "The Process of Writing" covers the basic building blocks of writing. "Time Savers for Grammar and Punctuation" includes types of sentences, how to find and eliminate run-ons, comma splices and fragments, comma use, nouns, capitalization, direct quotes, verb tenses, and irregular verbs, practice exercises, an answer key, and tests. "The Reader" contains students' personal stories for analysis and discussion. "Real Stories" helps students use words to empower and enrich their lives. Acquista Ora

Between Friends

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Oz, Amos, PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, In "Between Friends, " Amos Oz returns to the kibbutz of the late s, the time and place where his writing began. These eight interconnected stories, set in the fictitious Kibbutz Yikhat, draw masterly profiles of idealistic men and women enduring personal hardships in the shadow of one of the greatest collective dreams of the twentieth century. A devoted father who fails to challenge his daughter's lover, an old friend, a man his own age; an elderly gardener who carries on his shoulders the sorrows of the world; a woman writing perversely poignant letters to her husband's mistress. Amid this motley group of people, a man named Martin attempts to teach everyone Esperanto. Each of these stories is a luminous human and literary study; together they offer an eloquent portrait of an idea, and of a charged and fascinating epoch. Amos Oz at home. And at his best.

Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hopkinson, Nalo, PUBLISHER: Invisible Cities Press, The lushness of language and the landscape, wild contrasts, and pure storytelling magic abound in this anthology of Caribbean writing. Steeped in the tradition of fabulism, where the irrational and inexplicable coexist with the realities of daily life, the stories in this collection are infused with a vitality and freshness that most writing traditions have long ago lost. From spectral slaving ships to women who shed their skin at night to become owls, stories from writers such as Jamaica Kincaid, Marcia Douglas, Ian MacDonald, and Kamau Brathwaite pulse with rhythms, visions, and the tortured history of this spiritually rich region of the world.

Art and Its Significance: An Anthology of Aesthetic Theory

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: NA, PUBLISHER: State University of New York Press, NA

Social Ecology

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Guha, Ramachandra, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, USA, Social Ecology brings together a selection of pioneering essays on a subject of increasing interest to sociologists and social anthropologists. With the growing awareness of the causes and consequences of environmental degradation, the once neglected field of social ecology has assumed enormous theoretical and practical importance. The essays assembled in this anthology provide a state of the art survey of the field as well as an orientation to future research. As the first such anthology of its kind, it provides a compact and analytically sophisticated overview of environment and society in contemporary India. It should be of great interest to administrators, activists, and development professionals as well as students and scholars working in the field.

The Bedford Reader

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Kennedy, X. J. / Kennedy, Dorothy M. / Aaron, Jane E., PUBLISHER: Bedford Books, One of the most widely adopted composition readers of all time, "The Bedford Reader "continues to engage and inspire students with remarkable selections, outstanding instructional material, and a unique "Writers on Writing" feature in which 50 of the book's writers comment on their process and their work. Thorough coverage of critical reading, effective writing, and working with sources guides students, now more than ever, through their own academic writing. And an exciting visual dimension shows that rhetorical methods apply to both images and text. " The Bedford Reader "is a favorite of students for the Kennedys' clarity and wit, of instructors for the flexible and realistic view of the rhetorical methods, and of both for the superior selections and perceptive commentaries by writers worth reading.

Restoration Literature: An Anthology

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hammond, Paul, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, USA, This anthology brings together a stimulating and entertaining collection of works from the confident and creative period of . The literature of this time is by turns refined, poignant, and brash. Alongside major works such as Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel and Mac Flecknoe, printed in their entirety, is a substantial group of lyrics by Rochester, while Milton's Paradise Lost provides a running commentary on the Restoration scene. Scurrilous satires and pamphlets, diaries, theatrical prologues, translations and striking work by women poets and autobiographers illustrate the period in politics, religion, philosophy and in attitudes to town and country, love and friendship.

Dreaming Arrival

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Welch, John, PUBLISHER: Shearsman Books, Circumventing conventional narratives of trauma and recovery, 'Dreaming Arrival' presents a series of very personal reflections on the writing life set in the context of John Welch's experience of psychoanalysis. Intensely felt, but always retaining a significant degree of scepticism, the book's starting-point was in a journal the writer kept when in analysis and it refers back to an experience of breakdown and hospitalisation thirty years previously. Calling easy notions of creativity into question 'Dreaming Arrival' looks not only at the way 'therapy' affects writing, but also at how the writing may affect the process of the therapy itself.

The Least You Should Know about English: Writing Skills,

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Wilson, Paige / Glazier, Teresa Ferster, PUBLISHER: Wadsworth Publishing Company, Quickly master English writing skills with THE LEAST YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT ENGLISH: WRITING SKILLS, FORM B, Tenth Edition. Brief and uncomplicated, this text has helped students learn the basics of English writing for thirty years with its clear, concise concept explanations and useful, relevant corresponding exercises. Topics include spelling, word choice, sentence structure, and punctuation as well as more advanced topics such as the writing process, argumentation, and summarizing skills. Check your work easily with exercise answers located in the back of the book. When the course ends, this text is an excellent writing resource for all your college courses and beyond.

SF Express: Includes MLA Guidelines

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Ruszkiewicz, John / Hairston, Maxine / Friend, Christy, PUBLISHER: Prentice Hall, "SF Express" is unique in providing coverage of a full range of writing issues in a pocket handbook format. It begins with six chapters on critical writing and thinking issues, including a separate chapter on writing logical arguments. And its treatment of style, design, and visual/online literacy is fuller than that provided in competing handbooks. The book offers all these features in an attractive, affordable, student-friendly format. Will answer any questions a writer has about grammar, the writing process, or research. The writing process, critical thinking, argumentative writing, style, grammar, mechanics, usage, the research process, how to document sources. Anyone who wants a reliable writing reference book.

Men of Letters, Writing Lives

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Broughton, Trev Lynn, PUBLISHER: Routledge, Trev Lynn Broughton takes an in-depth look at the developments within Victorian auto/biography, and asks what we can learn about the conditions and limits of male literary authority. Providing a feminist analysis of the effects of this literary production on culture, Broughton looks at the increase in professions with a vested interest in the written Life; the speeding up of the Life-and-Letters industry during this period; the institutionalization of Life-writing; and the consequent spread of a network of mainly male practitioners and commentators. This study focuses on two case studies from the period : the theories and achievements of Sir Leslie Stephen and the debate surrounding James Anthony Froude's account of the marriage of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle.

A Natural History of Nature Writing

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Stewart, Frank, PUBLISHER: Island Press, "A Natural History of Nature Writing" is a penetrating overview of the origins and development of a uniquely American literature. Essayist and poet Frank Stewart describes in rich and compelling prose the lives and works of the most prominent American nature writers of the19th and 20th centuries, including: Henry D. Thoreau, the father of American nature writing. John Burroughs, a schoolteacher and failed businessman who found his calling as a writer and elevated the nature essay to a loved and respected literary form. John Muir, founder of Sierra Club, who celebrated the wilderness of the Far West as few before him had. Aldo Leopold, a Forest Service employee and scholar who extended our moral responsibility to include all animals and plants. Rachel Carson, a scientist who raised the consciousness of the nation by revealing the catastrophic effects of human intervention on the Earth's living systems. Edward Abbey, an outspoken activist who charted the boundaries of ecological responsibility and pushed these boundaries to political extremes. Stewart highlights the controversies ignited by the powerful and eloquent prose of these and other writers with their expansive - and often strongly political - points of view. Combining a deeply-felt sense of wonder at the beauty surrounding us with a rare ability to capture and explain the meaning of that beauty, nature writers have had a profound effect on American culture and politics. "A Natural History of Nature Writing" is an insightful examination of an important body of American literature.

A Message Back and Other Furors

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Schwartz, Leonard, PUBLISHER: Chax Press, Poetry. "Between what's perceived and how one adds meaning spells a moment of infinite duration, an admixture of sense and thinking, of mirror-clear images and impressionistic language. 'A Message Back...' reads like an infinity sign, an unending process of journey and return, specific identity and underlying oneness, the poetry of open thinking in a time of war. With provocative borrowings and stinging insights, Leonard Schwartz transcribes an unforgettable conversation"--Thalia Field.

Literature: Reading to Write

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Howells, Elizabeth, PUBLISHER: Prentice Hall, "Literature: " "Reading to Write "masterfully weaves critical thinking skills, writing, and reading instruction using writing prompts, literary selections, and intriguing discussion points. Students transition from active readers to critical writers through a series of reading prompts and unique writing exercises. This process helps students find meaning in a broader context by forging connections between literature and their personal experiences. Additionally, the book features an eclectic array of classic and contemporary voices in literature as well as sections devoted to newer genres such as graphic novels. This interactive approach leaves students with the knowledge and confidence to write research papers and essays that are thought-provoking, engaging, and authentic to their true writing voice.

Historical Anthology of Music, Volume I: Oriental, Medieval,

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Davidson, Archibald T. / Davison, Archibald T. / Apel, Willi, PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press, This great anthology of music literature makes available to all music lovers a wonderful storehouse of hitherto inaccessible treasure. The volume includes the development of Oriental, Medieval, and Renaissance music from the beginning to . Its more than 200 representative examples are individually complete compositions, each of sufficient length to illustrate clearly a form or style. The authors provide an explanatory commentary with bibliography, English translations of foreign texts, and an index. The "Library Journal" says of it, "in short, Volume 1 of the music historian's classic dreams...No competitors on the market. Highly recommended." Acquista Ora

Elements of Color Photography: A Photo Anthology

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Todd, George / Watson-Guptill, PUBLISHER: Amphoto Books, In Elements of Color Photography a veteran photographer distills the knowledge and experience he gained over 30 years as a writer, teacher, and practicing photographer to show readers how he created dozens of dazzling color images from his own portfolio. Ranging from the purely abstract and still life to architecture, landscapes, and people, George Todd's photographs demonstrate that strongly contrasting forms and shadows need not be confined to classic black-and-white photography. Through clear step-by-step illustrations, Todd shows how color photography can become an effective composition tool, as much of a fine art form as monochrome--and the photos gain an added dimension with the bold and inventive use of color. Plus, this anthology features dazzling, full-color examples of Todd's photographic techniques in action.

Self-Same Songs: Autobiographical Performances and

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Porter, Roger J., PUBLISHER: University of Nebraska Press, "Self-Same Songs" constitutes a major contribution to the growing literary study of autobiography. Using a range of authors, including Homer, Edward Gibbon, Benjamin Franklin, Somerset Maugham, Franz Kafka, and Eugene Delacroix, Roger J. Porter offers a broad-based examination of the autobiography and the varied techniques used by its practitioners over time. In a style that is both graceful and erudite, Porter focuses on the diverse motivations and rhetorical functions that the act of self-writing serves for particular writers. He reflects on the texts not only as an exploration of self-identity but also as the writers' attempts to modify the life in the act of writing about it. Then, stepping out of his critical role, Porter ends each chapter with an autobiographical discussion of his professional and personal engagement with the autobiographer under discussion, creating an intriguing and absorbing literary autobiography within the critical text.

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