| Description |
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations |
| Series |
Critical insights |
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Critical insights.
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| Contents |
About this volume / Jay Ellis -- On American creative nonfiction / Jay Ellis -- American creative nonfiction : background and history / Kelly Clasen -- Critical reception of "a special kind of fiction" / Ross Griffin -- The lyric essay as non-nonfiction / Jay Ellis -- "Loops and spins" : autobiography, autofiction, and Tim O'Brien's serial selves / David Bahr -- Benjamin Franklin's middle way and the argumentative nature of autobiography / Peter Kratzke -- Gender and genre in Susan Fenimore Cooper's nature writing / Kelly Clasen -- "A canticle of my reaction" : socio-cultural criticism in Claude McKay's A long way from home / Christopher Allen Varlack -- "I'm fighting because you're down here" : small stories and big histories in Shelby Foote's The Civil War / Christopher Walsh -- Medical humanities and illness narratives / G. Thomas Couser -- The grand memoir : Temple Grandin and autism / Katherine Lashley -- Stories of the self in cinema : autobiography and the documentary image / Shira Segal -- One life transformed : Natalie Goldberg's writing, art, and religion / Beth Walker -- David Foster Wallace and the ethical potential of creative nonfiction / Brandon Benevento -- Choreographing time : Art Spiegelman's present, past(s) and the craft of creative nonfiction comics / David Bahr |
| Summary |
This book provides an overview of a genre of genres called "creative nonfiction," but also takes a look at lyrical essays. This title begins by figuring out why readers of American literature in particular created "nonfiction" writing and also examines some lyric essayist work whose cannot be trusted as a meaningful form "nonfiction." |
| Notes |
Edition statement supplied by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Creative nonfiction, American -- History and criticism
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Authors, American -- Biography -- History and criticism
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Narration (Rhetoric) -- History
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Authors, American -- Biography
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Creative nonfiction, American
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ellis, Jay, 1963- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781619254183 |
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1619254182 |
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