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The Art of X-Ray Reading: How the Secrets of 25 Great Works of Literature Will Improve Your Writing
Roy Peter Clark
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Description for The Art of X-Ray Reading: How the Secrets of 25 Great Works of Literature Will Improve Your Writing
Paperback. Roy Peter Clark, one of America's most influential writing teachers, offers writing lessons we can draw from 25 great texts. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: CBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 209 x 26. Weight in Grams: 288.
Where do writers learn their best moves? They use a technique that Roy Peter Clark calls X-ray reading, a form of reading that lets you penetrate beyond the surface of a text to see how meaning is actually being made. In THE ART OF X-RAY READING, Clark invites you to don your X-ray reading glasses and join him on a guided tour through some of the most exquisite and masterful literary works of all time, from The Great Gatsby to Lolita to The Bluest Eye, and many more. Along the way, he shows you how to mine these masterpieces for ... Read more
Where do writers learn their best moves? They use a technique that Roy Peter Clark calls X-ray reading, a form of reading that lets you penetrate beyond the surface of a text to see how meaning is actually being made. In THE ART OF X-RAY READING, Clark invites you to don your X-ray reading glasses and join him on a guided tour through some of the most exquisite and masterful literary works of all time, from The Great Gatsby to Lolita to The Bluest Eye, and many more. Along the way, he shows you how to mine these masterpieces for ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780316282147
SKU
V9780316282147
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About Roy Peter Clark
Roy Peter Clark is senior scholar at the Poynter Institute, one of the most prestigious schools for journalists in the world. He has taught writing at every level--to schoolchildren and Pulitzer Prize-winning authors--for more than thirty years. A writer who teaches and a teacher who writes, he has authored or edited seventeen books on writing and journalism, including How to ... Read more
Reviews for The Art of X-Ray Reading: How the Secrets of 25 Great Works of Literature Will Improve Your Writing
Any honest writer will tell you this: It's not tricks that make you better at crafting prose. It's reading. Lots of reading. Close reading. X-ray reading. Roy Peter Clark decodes brilliant passages so that we can not so much emulate them, but make our own magic.
-Constance Hale, author of Sin and Syntax and Vex, Hex, Smash, Smooch This ... Read more
-Constance Hale, author of Sin and Syntax and Vex, Hex, Smash, Smooch This ... Read more