Writing Creative Non-Fiction: Determining the Form - Couverture souple
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Synopsis
Writers of creative non-fiction are often expected to be able to recreate reality, to deal with, or even access, a singular truth. But the author, like any human, is not an automaton remotely tasked with capturing a life or an event. Whether we tell stories and understand them as fiction or non-fiction, or whether we draw away from these classifications, writers craft and shape writing all writing. No experience exists on a flat plane, and recounting or interpreting events will always involve some element of artistic manipulation: every instance, exchange, discussion, event is open to multiple interpretations and can be described in many ways, all of which are potentially truthful. Writing Creative Non-Fiction: Determining the Form contains essays and original writing from novelists, poets, songwriters, musicians and academics. The book covers topics that range from explorations of the role of the author, definitions and representations of the form, self and illness, to the spectral elements of non-fiction and its role in historical narratives. The essays included in this volume address everything from memoir, biography and autobiography to a discussion of musical approaches to criticism and a non/fiction interview. The book identifies key writers including Christopher Isherwood, David Shields, James Frey, Åsne Seierstad, John D'Agata, W. G. Sebald, Jonathan Coe, Hilary Mantel, James Kelman, Liz Lochhead and Arthur Frank and is essential reading for students, researchers and writers of creative non-fiction.
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Pathways to Determining Form Laura Tansley and Micaela Maftei
A Bulgarian Journey Kapka Kassabova
At the Will of Our Stories John I MacArtney
She and I: Composite Characters in Creative Non-Fiction Katie Karnehm
More Lies Please: Biography and the Duty to Abandon Truth Rodge Glass
Ghosts of the Real: The Spectral Memoir Helen Pleasance
One doesn t have much but oneself : Christopher Isherwood s Investigation into Identity and the Manipulation of Form in The Memorial Rebecca Gordon Stewart
Menna, Martha and Me: The Possibilities of Epistolary Criticism Rhiannon Marks
An Introduction to Schizoanalysis : The Development of a Musical Approach to Criticism Jo Collinson Scott
Eyes! Birds! Walnuts! Pennies! Erin Soros
Just Words Erin Soros
It is in their Nature to Change: On Mis-leading Elizabeth Reeder
Index
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À propos de l?auteur
Laura Tansley's creative and critical writing has appeared in a variety of places including 'Short Fiction in Theory and Practice', 'New Writing', 'Versal' and 'The Island Review' (with Amy Mackelden), 'Kenyon Review Online' (with Micaela Maftei), 'New Writing Scotland' and 'NANO Fiction'. She lives and works in Glasgow.
Micaela Maftei holds a PhD from the University of Glasgow. Her book The Fiction of Autobiography: Reading and Writing Identity was published with Bloomsbury in 2013 and her fiction has appeared online and in print in the UK and North America.
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