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Authors on Writing: Metaphors and Intellectual Labor
Barbara Tomlinson
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Description for Authors on Writing: Metaphors and Intellectual Labor
Hardcover. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFG; DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 160 x 18. Weight in Grams: 426.
Drawing on some 3,000 published interviews with contemporary authors, Authors on Writing: Metaphors and Intellectual Labor reveals new ways of conceiving of writing as intellectual labor. Authors' metaphorical stories about composing highlight not interior worlds but socially situated cultures of composing and apparatuses of authorship. Through an original method of interpreting metaphorical stories, Tomlinson argues that writing is both an individual activity and a collective practice, a solitary activity that depends upon rich, sustained, and complex social networks, institutions, and beliefs. This new book draws upon interviews with writers including: Seamus Heaney, Roald Dahl, Samuel Beckett, Bret Easton Ellis, John ... Read more
Drawing on some 3,000 published interviews with contemporary authors, Authors on Writing: Metaphors and Intellectual Labor reveals new ways of conceiving of writing as intellectual labor. Authors' metaphorical stories about composing highlight not interior worlds but socially situated cultures of composing and apparatuses of authorship. Through an original method of interpreting metaphorical stories, Tomlinson argues that writing is both an individual activity and a collective practice, a solitary activity that depends upon rich, sustained, and complex social networks, institutions, and beliefs. This new book draws upon interviews with writers including: Seamus Heaney, Roald Dahl, Samuel Beckett, Bret Easton Ellis, John ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
233
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403948953
SKU
V9781403948953
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Ref
99-15
About Barbara Tomlinson
BARBARA TOMLINSON is Associate Professor of Literature and Director of the Muir Writing Program at the University of California, San Diego, USA. She has published articles in a wide range of scholarly journals, including Signs, Cultural Critique, The Journal of Medical Anthropology, Configurations, Written Communication, and Metaphor and Symbolic Activity.
Reviews for Authors on Writing: Metaphors and Intellectual Labor
'Drawing on 3,000 published interviews with contemporary authors, Authors on Writing reveals new ways of conceiving writing as intellectual labour. This highly academic book highlights authors' metaphorical stories about composing.' - Writers News