Ned Stuckey-French's Books

Writing Fiction

A Guide to Narrative Craft

By: Janet Burroway,Elizabeth Stuckey-French,Ned Stuckey-French

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Writing Fiction

A Guide to Narrative Craft

By: Janet Burroway,Elizabeth Stuckey-French,Ned Stuckey-French

This updated edition of the classic, comprehensive guide to creative writing features new topics and writing prompts, contemporary examples, and more. A creative writer’s shelf should hold at least three essential books: a dictionary, a style guide, and Janet Burroway’s Writing Fiction. This best-selling classic is the most widely used creative writing text in America, and for decades it has helped hundreds of thousands of students learn the craft. Now in its tenth edition, Writing Fiction is more accessible than ever for writers of all levels—inside or outside the classroom. This new edition continues to provide advice that is practical, comprehensive, and flexible. Moving from freewriting to final revision, Burroway addresses “showing not telling,” characterization, dialogue, atmosphere, plot, imagery, and point of view. It includes new topics and writing prompts, and each chapter now ends with a list of recommended readings that exemplify the craft elements discussed. Plus, examples and quotations throughout the book feature a wide range of today’s best and best-known creators of both novels and short stories.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

255

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

022661672X

ISBN 13

9780226616728

The American Essay in the American Century

By: Ned Stuckey-French

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The American Essay in the American Century

By: Ned Stuckey-French

In modern culture, the essay is often considered an old-fashioned, unoriginal form of literary styling. The word essay brings to mind the uninspired five-paragraph theme taught in schools around the country or the antiquated, Edwardian meanderings of English gentlemen rattling on about art and old books. These connotations exist despite the fact that Americans have been reading and enjoying personal essays in popular magazines for decades, engaging with a multitude of ideas through this short-form means of expression. To defend the essay—that misunderstood staple of first-year composition courses—Ned Stuckey-French has written The American Essay in the American Century. This book uncovers the buried history of the American personal essay and reveals how it played a significant role in twentieth-century cultural history. In the early 1900s, writers and critics debated the “death of the essay,” claiming it was too traditional to survive the era’s growing commercialism, labeling it a bastion of British upper-class conventions. Yet in that period, the essay blossomed into a cultural force as a new group of writers composed essays that responded to the concerns of America’s expanding cosmopolitan readership. These essays would spark the “magazine revolution,” giving a fresh voice to the ascendant middle class of the young century. With extensive research and a cultural context, Stuckey-French describes the many reasons essays grew in appeal and importance for Americans. He also explores the rise of E. B. White, considered by many the greatest American essayist of the first half of the twentieth century whose prowess was overshadowed by his success in other fields of writing. White’s work introduced a new voice, creating an American essay that melded seriousness and political resolve with humor and self-deprecation. This book is one of the first to consider and reflect on the contributions of E. B. White to the personal essay tradition and American culture more generally. The American Essay in the American Century is a compelling, highly readable book that illuminates the history of a secretly beloved literary genre. A work that will appeal to fiction readers, scholars, and students alike, this book offers fundamental insight into modern American literary history and the intersections of literature, culture, and class through the personal essay. This thoroughly researched volume dismisses, once and for all, the “death of the essay,” proving that the essay will remain relevant for a very long time to come.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

274

Publisher

University of Missouri Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

082621925X

ISBN 13

9780826219251

The American Essay in the American Century

By: Ned Stuckey-French

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The American Essay in the American Century

By: Ned Stuckey-French

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

274

Publisher

University of Missouri Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0826272541

ISBN 13

9780826272546

Book's by Ned Stuckey-French

Writing Fiction

Writing Fiction

The American Essay in the American Century

The American Essay in the American Century

The American Essay in the American Century

The American Essay in the American Century

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email