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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778946903321

Autore

Bunge Nancy

Titolo

Master Class [[electronic resource] ] : Lessons from Leading Writers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 2009

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Disciplina

808

808/.02

Soggetti

Authors -- Interviews

Authorship -- Study and teaching

Authorship

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Theory; Sandra Gilbert; Allen Ginsberg; Donald Hall; Etheridge Knight; Clarence Major; James Alan McPherson; N. Scott Momday; Kit Reed; Alix Kates Shulman; William Stafford; Wallace Stegner; Ruth Stone; Diane Wakoski; Anne Waldman; Richard Wilbur; Richard Yates; Helen Yglesias; Practice; Marvin Bell; Ivan Doig; Jim Harrison; Margot Livesay; Bobbie Ann Mason; Larry McMurtry; Sue Miller; Kyoko Mori; Thylias Moss; W.S. Penn; Scott Turow; Katherine Vaz; Other Published Interviews; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Master Class: Lessons from Leading Writers gathers more than two decades of wisdom from twenty-nine accomplished authors. It offers previously unpublished interviews along with freshly edited versions of ten interviews from Nancy Bunge's well-received previous collection, Finding the Words. The first section, Theory, incorporates interviews which document the golden age of writing programs in which authors with a strong sense of social and cultural responsibility taught as seriously as they wrote. These conversations delve into the writers' philosophies and teaching methods. The second section