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Contemporary Creative Nonfiction
Bill Roorbach
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Description for Contemporary Creative Nonfiction
Paperback. Featuring over 60 works, this collection includes works of literary memoir by such writers as Mary McCarthy and Judy Ruiz; personal essays by authors ranging from E.B. White to Phillip Lopate; and literary journalism by Truman Capote, Barbara Ehrenreich, Sebastian Junger, and many others. Editor(s): Roorbach, Bill. Num Pages: 576 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; CBV; DQ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 167 x 28. Weight in Grams: 872.
The most inclusive collection of creative nonfiction available, Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: The Art of Truth is the only anthology that brings together examples of all three of the main forms in the genre: the literary memoir, the personal essay, and literary journalism. Featuring a generous and diverse sampling of over sixty works, this collection includes beautiful, disturbing, and instructive works of literary memoir by such writers as Mary McCarthy, Annie Dillard, and Judy Ruiz; smart, funny, and moving personal essays by authors ranging from E.B. White to Phillip Lopate to Ntozake Shange; and incisive, vivid, and quirky examples of literary ... Read more
The most inclusive collection of creative nonfiction available, Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: The Art of Truth is the only anthology that brings together examples of all three of the main forms in the genre: the literary memoir, the personal essay, and literary journalism. Featuring a generous and diverse sampling of over sixty works, this collection includes beautiful, disturbing, and instructive works of literary memoir by such writers as Mary McCarthy, Annie Dillard, and Judy Ruiz; smart, funny, and moving personal essays by authors ranging from E.B. White to Phillip Lopate to Ntozake Shange; and incisive, vivid, and quirky examples of literary ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
576
Condition
New
Number of Pages
576
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195135565
SKU
V9780195135565
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Reviews for Contemporary Creative Nonfiction
"From the composition classroom to the biology lab
any teacher who makes writing a key component of the learning process will find this new anthology a creative and thought-provoking resource. Using the diaries, memoirs, science essays, travel writings, and literary journalism of some of America's most gifted writers, Bill Roorbach brings creative nonfiction across disciplinary boundaries and into the classroom."
Dana Sobyra ... Read more
any teacher who makes writing a key component of the learning process will find this new anthology a creative and thought-provoking resource. Using the diaries, memoirs, science essays, travel writings, and literary journalism of some of America's most gifted writers, Bill Roorbach brings creative nonfiction across disciplinary boundaries and into the classroom."
Dana Sobyra ... Read more