Neatness counts : essays on the writer's desk / / Kevin Kopelson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910821068703321
• Autore: Kopelson Kevin <1960->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2004
• ISBN: 0-8166-9627-6
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (182 p.)
• Classificazione: 17.82
• Disciplina: 809/.03
• Soggetti: Authorship - Psychological aspects; Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism; Orderliness
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-153) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Desk work -- Bedtime story -- Same place twice -- Lightning strikes -- Movable type -- From the notebooks.
• Sommario/riassunto: In Neatness Counts, Kevin Kopelson offers a series of meditations on how orderliness, chaos, and other physical states correspond with both the exhilaration of production and the desperation of writer's block. Focusing on Elizabeth Bishop, Marcel Proust, Roland Barthes, Tom Stoppard, and Bruce Chatwin, Neatness Counts is at once critical and creative, examining how various writers' work habits relate to their published work.