Sewanee writers on writing
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Sewanee writers on writing
（Southern literary studies）
Louisiana State University Press, 2000
- : hbk
- : pbk
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Lectures originally presented at the first ten Sewanee Writers' Conferences
Includes index
Contents of Works
- On research / Russell Banks
- Meanwhile back at the ranch / John Casey
- Imaginary countries / Ellen Douglas
- How to and how not to : some lessons learned along the way / Horton Foote
- Bloodline in ink / Ernest J. Gaines
- Paralipomena to The hidden law / Anthony Hecht
- Robert Frost's oven bird / John Hollander
- Starting in / Diane Johnson
- Benign obscurity / Donald Justice
- Challenges more than solutions / Romulus Linney
- Bend sinister : a handbook for writers / Alice McDermott
- Highlights / Marsha Norman
- On leaving things out / Francine Prose
- The figure of vacancy / Wyatt Prunty
Description and Table of Contents
- Volume
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: hbk ISBN 9780807126318
Description
The Sewanee Writers' Conference is a series of workshops and colloquia aimed at cultivating the craft of writing. Gleaned from the first ten conferences, the lectures collected here offer a range of perspectives on writing as practised by various playwrights, poets and fiction writers.
- Volume
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: pbk ISBN 9780807126523
Description
For two weeks every year, literary figures from throughout the country gather in rural Sewanee, Tennessee, to lead the Sewanee Writers' Conference, a series of workshops and colloquia aimed at cultivating the craft of writing. Gleaned from the first ten conferences, the ""craft"" lectures collected inDisclosing Craft offer a range of perspectives on writing as practiced by various playwrights, poets, and fiction writers whose gifts have made the Sewanee conference a mecca for developing talent.
The essays offer a banquet of topics that will whet the appetite of all authors, professional and amateur. Russell Banks ponders the role of research in the constitutive power of the imagination, John Casey considers simultaneity in art, and Ellen Douglas describes how a writer confronts the changing shape of memory.
Reviewing the many changes he has witnessed in his distinguished career as a playwright, Horton Foote offers his perspective on the collaborative spirit of the theater, and Ernest Gaines explains why his subject matter must always remain the people of Louisiana. Anthony Hecht responds to W. H. Auden, revealing the ways both poets pair talent with subject, and in a discussion of Robert Frost, John Hollander explores the delicate subtleties of Frost's figurative thought.
Diane Johnson offers a witty and frank answer to the question all writers face at one time or another: ""Write what?"" Donald Justice expounds on the virtues of obscurity in poetry, and Romulus Linney offers practical guidelines for using dramatic action to revise a play. In her examination of Nabokov's Bend Sinister, Alice McDermott demonstrates that fiction writers are bound by no rules other than ""do whatever you can get away with."" Marsha Norman provides a witty list of the dos and don'ts of playwriting and Francine Prose stresses the importance of detail to a story's credibility. Finally, volume editor Wyatt Prunty discusses the figure of vacancy in the stories of Flannery O'Connor and Peter Taylor.
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