Edition |
[First edition]. |
Description |
xxxii, 235 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Series |
Critical insights |
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Critical insights.
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Note |
Edition statement supplied by publisher. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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 collection of critical essays on American creative nonfiction features an overview of the genre and critical readings of selected works and authors. |
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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Authors, American -- Biography. (OCoLC)fst00821768
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Creative nonfiction, American. (OCoLC)fst01762160
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Narration (Rhetoric) (OCoLC)fst01032927
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Added Author |
Ellis, Jay, 1963- editor.
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ISBN |
9781619254176 (hardcover) |
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1619254174 (hardcover) |
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