Stranger at the door : writers and the act of writing / / Kristjana Gunnars
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| Autore: |
Gunnars Kristjana <1948->
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| Titolo: |
Stranger at the door : writers and the act of writing / / Kristjana Gunnars
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| Pubblicazione: | Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2004 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (136 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 808/.02 |
| Soggetto topico: | Creative writing |
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| Classificazione: | 18.04 |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references: p. 117-121. |
| Nota di contenuto: | The art of solitude -- The diasporic imagination : writers' perspectives -- The home and the artist -- Transcultural appropriation : problems and perspectives -- Theory and fiction : the mixed bag of postmodern writing -- Writing and silence : the unteachable mystery of words -- On writing short books -- Poetry and the idea of home. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | At the beginning of a new writing project-whether it's the first page of a new novel or a less ambitious project, writers often experience exhilaration, fear, or dread. For Kristjana Gunnars, the call of a new project is ""like someone you don't know knocking on your door-you either choose to let the person in or not. It's both exciting and dangerous to start a new manuscript."" This book is an engagement with that ""stranger"" called writing. Creative or imaginative writing is a complex process that involves more than intellect alone. Writers make use of everything: their sensibi |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Stranger at the door |
| ISBN: | 9786610280742 |
| 9781554586943 | |
| 1554586941 | |
| 9781280280740 | |
| 1280280743 | |
| 9780889209329 | |
| 0889209324 | |
| 9781417563180 | |
| 1417563184 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910957030103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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