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The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers Of/on Creative Nonfiction

ISBN: 9780205275953 | 0205275958
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 8/1/1998

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SummaryTable of Contents
Reader for courses in creative nonfiction that bridges gaps between teaching of composition, creative writing, and literature. Includes three parts: Selections that illustrate "the fourth genre" (nonfiction); articles that discuss the forms and issues surrounding the fourth genre; and essays paired with articles by the authors explaining their composing processes. Selections include essay, memoir, literary journalism, and cultural criticism.
Alternative Contents: Subgenres of Creative Nonfictionxi(4)
Preface: Beginning the Conversationxv(8)
Introduction: Creative Nonfication, the Fourth Genrexxiii
PART ONE Writing Creative Nonfiction
... MOREPhyllis Barber
"Oh Say Can You See?"
Mary Clearman Blew
"The Unwanted Child"
Judith Ortiz Cofer
"Silent Dancing"
Frank Conroy
"Running the Table"
William DeBuys
"Aerial Reconnaissance"
Annie Dillard
"Living Like Weasels"
Gretel Ehrlich
"From a Sheepherder's Notebook: Three Days"
Patricia Hampl
"Parish Streets"
Vicki Hearne
"Can an Ape Tell a Joke?"
Garrett Hongo
"Fraternity"
Pico Iyer
"Where Worlds Collide"
Sydney Lea
"On the Bubble"
Phillip Lopate
"Portrait of My Body"
Nancy Mairs
"Carnal Acts"
John McPhee
"From Birnam Wood to Dunsinane"
Barbara Mellix
"From Outside, In"
Donald M. Murray
"Amid Onions and Oranges, a Boy Becomes a Man"
Kathleen Norris
"Celibate Passions"
Naomi Shihab Nye
"Three Pokes of a Thistle"
Brenda Peterson
"Animal Allies"
Richard Rodriguez
"Late Victorians"
Witold Rybczynski
"Designs for Escape"
Scott Russell Sanders
"Cloud Crossing"
Reg Saner
"Pliny and the Mountain Mouse"
Richard Selzer
"The Masked Marvel's Last Toehold"
Leslie Marmon Silko
"In the Combat Zone"
Nancy Sommers
"I Stand Here Writing"
Michael Steinberg
"Trading Off: A Memoir"
Jeffrey Tayler
"Vessel of Last Resort"
Lewis Thomas
"Seven Wonders"
Jane Tompkins
"At the Buffalo Bill Museum, June 1988"
Susan Allen Toth
"Going to the Movies"
Roger Weingarten
"Fireworks to Praise a Homemade Day"
Nancy Willard
"The Friendship Tarot"
237(6)
PART TWO Talking about Creative Nonfiction243(158)
Chris Anderson
"Late Night Thoughts on Writing and Teaching Essays"
252(7)
Jocelyn Bartkevicius
"The Landscape of Creative Nonfiction"
Mary Clearman Blew
"The Art of Memoir"
David Bradley
"The Faith"
Annie Dillard
"To Fashion a Text"
Peter Elbow
"About Personal Expressive Academic Writing"
Rebecca Blevins Faery
"On the Possibilities of the Essay: A Meditation"
Patricia Hampl
"Memory and Imagination"
Tracy Kidder
"Courting the Approval of the Dead"
Lisa Knopp
"Excavations"
Fern Kupfer
"Everything But the Truth?"
Sydney Lea
"What We Didn't Know We Knew"
Phillip Lopate
"What Happened to the Personal Essay?"
Andrea A. Lunsford
"Creative Nonfiction': What's in a Name?"
Donald M. Murray
"One Writer's Secrets"
Robert L. Root, Jr.
"College, Montage, Mosaic, Vignette, Episode, Segment"
Scott Russell Sanders
"The Singular First Person"
Richard Selzer
"The Exact Location of the Soul"
Jane Tompkins
"Me and My Shadow"
Marianna DeMarco Torgovnick
"Experimental Critical Writing"
396(5)
PART THREE Composing Creative Nonfiction401(58)
Emily D. Chase
"Warping Time with Montaigne"
Emily D. Chase
"Notes from a Journey toward `Warping Time'"
Simone Poirier-Bures
"That Shining Place: Crete, 1966"
Simone Poirier-Bures
"Afterword: Writing `The Greece Piece'"
Mary Elizabeth Pope
"Teacher Training"
Mary Elizabeth Pope
"Composing `Teacher Training'"
Maureen Stanton
"Zion"
Maureen Stanton
"On Writing `Zion'"
454(5)
Alternative Contents: Approaches to Writing and Discussing Creative Nonfiction459(4)
Index463

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