Robert Root

The Nonfictionist's Guide (eBook, ePUB)

On Reading and Writing Creative Nonfiction

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Nonfiction_the 'fourth genre' (along with poetry, fiction, and drama)_is a literary field affecting bestseller lists, writing programs, writers' workshops, and conferences on the study of creative writing, composition/rhetoric, and literature. It is often labeled and/or limited as 'creative' or 'literary' nonfiction and subdivided into essay, memoir, literary journalism, personal cultural criticism, and narratives of nature and travel. A vital and growing form, nonfiction has, until now, needed a sustained discussion about its poetics_both the theory and the craft of this genre. The Nonfictionist's Guide offers a lively exploration of the elements of contemporary nonfiction and suggests imaginative approaches to writing it. Each chapter on a vital aspect of contemporary nonfiction concludes with a separate section of relevant 'notes for nonfictionists.' Beginning with a new definition of nonfiction and explanation of the nonfiction motive, Robert Root discusses the use of experimental forms, the effects of present and past tense and experiential and reflective voices, and the issue of truth. He provides groundbreaking explorations of the segmented essay and the role of spaces as an essential literary device, guiding both readers and writers through the innovative and stimulating ways we write nonfiction now.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781461644989
• Artikelnr.: 38406430

Autorenporträt

Robert Root's narratives of history and place include Recovering Ruth: A Biographer's Tale, Following Isabella: Travels in Colorado Then and Now, and Walking Home Ground: In the Footsteps of Muir, Leopold, and Derleth, and the essay collection Postscripts: Retrospections on Time and Place. He is the editor of the anthology Landscapes With Figures: The Nonfiction of Place and co-editor of the anthology The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction. He has published and presented widely on creative nonfiction.His essay "A Double Life," published in Writing on the Edge, won the 2007 Donald Murray Award for Best Essay on Writing and/or Teaching. "Postscript to a Postscript to 'The Ring of Time'," published in The Pinch, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and won the Council of Wisconsin Writers Short Nonfiction Award. He has been an Artist-in-Residence at Acadia National Park, Rocky Mountain National Park, and Isle Royale National Park, and a visiting writer at the Kachemak Bay, Sanibel Island, and Geneva Writers Conferences. He lives in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Further information is available at www.rootwriting.com.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 1 The Nature of Nonfiction Chapter 3 2 Not the Design of the Author Chapter 4 3 The Experimental Art Chapter 5 4 The Art of Seeing Chapter 6 5 Collage
Montage
Mosaic
Vignette
Episode
Segment Chapter 7 6 This Is What the Spaces Say Chapter 8 7 Immediacy Chapter 9 8 Distance Chapter 10 9 Writing by Ear Chapter 11 10 Place Chapter 12 11 Truth Chapter 13 12 Last Words Last Chapter 14 Notes and References