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(Don't) Stop Me if You've Heard This Before

Autor Peter Turchi
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 mar 2023
Peter Turchi's third book on the craft of fiction goes beyond the basics to explore the intricate mechanics of storytelling.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781595349767
ISBN-10: 1595349766
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 216 x 139 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Trinity University Press,U.S.

Notă biografică

Peter Turchi has written and coedited several books on writing fiction, including Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer, A Muse and a Maze: Writing as Puzzle, Mystery, and Magic, A Kite in the Wind: Fiction Writers on Their Craft, and (Don't) Stop Me if You've Heard This Before and Other Essays on Writing Fiction. His stories have appeared in Ploughshares, Story, the Alaska Quarterly Review, Puerto del Sol, and the Colorado Review, among other journals. He has received numerous accolades, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He is a professor of creative writing at the University of Houston.

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Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • Power Plays: Toward More Dynamic Scenes
  • A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Information Dump: The Strategic Release of Information
  • I See What You’re Saying: Images and Motifs
  • The Roast Beef is The Story: Digressions, Misdirection, and Asides
  • Don’t Stand so Close to Me: Narrative Distance in First Person Fiction          
  • Don’t Stand so Close to Him, or Her, or Them, Either: Narrative Distance in Third Person Fiction
  • (Don’t) Stop Me if You’ve Heard this Before: Storytelling Characters           
  • Archimedes’ Lever: Setting a Narrative World in Motion         
  • Appendix
  • Out of the Workshop, Into the Laboratory          
  • Reading Like a Writer        
  • Resources for Fiction Writers          
  • Acknowledgements