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Bloomsbury Introduction to Creative Writing 2nd edition [Pehme köide]

(Bronx Community College, USA)
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 296 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 234x154x18 mm, kaal: 465 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 21-Mar-2019
  • Kirjastus: Bloomsbury Academic
  • ISBN-10: 1350056685
  • ISBN-13: 9781350056688
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 296 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 234x154x18 mm, kaal: 465 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 21-Mar-2019
  • Kirjastus: Bloomsbury Academic
  • ISBN-10: 1350056685
  • ISBN-13: 9781350056688
Covering all of the major genres, The Bloomsbury Introduction to Creative Writing is a complete introductory manual for students of creative writing. Now in its second edition, the book features an updated and expanded chapter on writing for digital media, and new exercises for reading across the genres and writing hybrid forms. Through a structured series of practical writing exercises perfect for the classroom, the writers workshop or as a starting point for a portfolio of work the book builds the student writer from the first explorations of voice and the relationship between writing and knowledge, through to mastery of a wide range of genres and forms.

The Bloomsbury Introduction to Creative Writing covers such genres as: · Autobiographical writing · Short fiction · Poetry · Screenwriting and writing for performance · Writing for digital media, including video games and social media

With practical guidance on writing scholarly critiques of your own work and a glossary of terms for ease of reference, The Bloomsbury Introduction to Creative Writing is an essential manual for any introductory creative writing course and a practical companion for more advanced writers.

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Now in its second edition with an expanded section on writing for digital media, this is an accessible guide through multi-genre creative writing, from memoir and the personal essay to fiction, poetry and screenwriting.
Contents v
Acknowledgments viii
Introduction: The Knowing Writer 1(1)
On writing 1(5)
On knowing 6(4)
Tips on attacking the practical exercises 10(7)
1 Writing and Knowledge
17(20)
The writers' block myth
19(4)
The reading writer
23(1)
Knowing
24(4)
Your writer self
28(5)
Emotion as material
33(4)
2 Writing the Self
37(32)
Memoir and autobiography
39(8)
Reflective writing
47(8)
Human interest features
55(6)
Personal essays, and "Why I Write"
61(8)
3 Poetics and Poetry Composition
69(34)
Poetic movements: An abridged whirlwind history
72(6)
Poetry as "language distilled"
78(7)
Sound devices
85(3)
Poetry and orality
88(4)
Form and meaning
92(6)
Finding your poem
98(5)
4 Fiction Conventions
103(40)
Fiction and creativity: The anecdote, the muse, and the visionary
104(5)
Often forgotten forms of fiction
109(1)
Ideas and themes
110(3)
Narrative structure
113(4)
Narrative structure toolbox
117(5)
Plot and conflict
122(3)
Characterization
125(4)
Setting: Time, place, and context
129(4)
Finding your voice
133(6)
Genre fiction
139(4)
5 Screenwriting
143(34)
Screenwriting as literary form
145(1)
The slug line
146(1)
Action
146(4)
Dialogue
150(8)
Characterization
158(4)
Theme and narrative
162(11)
Screenwriting technical toolbox
173(4)
6 Writing for Performance
177(16)
Performance as hybrid art
177(1)
One-act plays
178(7)
Monologue and soliloquy
185(4)
Spoken word
189(4)
7 Writing for Digital Media
193(30)
The dark side of content
195(3)
Digital storytelling
198(3)
Video scripts for social media
201(6)
Writing for video games
207(2)
Writing for virtual reality
209(4)
Web 2.0 and journalism as conversation
213(1)
Online media toolbox
214(4)
Personal publishing
218(5)
8 Critique and Exegesis
223(32)
Critique
224(9)
Referencing scholarly texts
233(3)
Referencing creative texts
236(3)
Analyzing your creative work
239(1)
Conclusions
240(1)
Critique writing toolbox
241(2)
Exegesis
243(1)
Exegesis research methods
244(2)
Identifying your exegetical thesis
246(2)
Hermeneutics and close reading as primary research
248(3)
Exegesis planning and structure
251(2)
Linking creative and scholarly writing
253(2)
Glossary of Terms 255(12)
Works Cited 267(4)
Index 271
Tara Mokhtari is an Assistant Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences at Bronx Community College, USA, has taught creative writing, literature, and communications at universities in Australia and the United States since 2007, and is the author of Anxiety Soup.