The Cambridge Companion to Creative Writing

Author: David Morley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107494370
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 245

Book Description
Creative writing has become a highly professionalised academic discipline, with popular courses and prestigious degree programmes worldwide. This book is a must for all students and teachers of creative writing, indeed for anyone who aspires to be a published writer. It engages with a complex art in an accessible manner, addressing concepts important to the rapidly growing field of creative writing, while maintaining a strong craft emphasis, analysing exemplary models of writing and providing related writing exercises. Written by professional writers and teachers of writing, the chapters deal with specific genres or forms - ranging from the novel to new media - or with significant topics that explore the cutting edge state of creative writing internationally (including creative writing and science, contemporary publishing and new workshop approaches).

The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing

Author: David Morley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521547543
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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The Cambridge Companion to Narrative

Author: David Herman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521856965
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 19

Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Narrative provides a unique and valuable overview of current approaches to narrative study. An international team of experts explores ideas of storytelling and methods of narrative analysis as they have emerged across diverse traditions of inquiry and in connection with a variety of media, from film and television, to storytelling in the 'real-life' contexts of face-to-face interaction, to literary fiction. Each chapter presents a survey of scholarly approaches to topics such as character, dialogue, genre or language, shows how those approaches can be brought to bear on a relatively well-known illustrative example, and indicates directions for further research. Featuring a chapter reviewing definitions of narrative, a glossary of key terms and a comprehensive index, this is an essential resource for both students and scholars in many fields, including language and literature, composition and rhetoric, creative writing, jurisprudence, communication and media studies, and the social sciences.

The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Women's Writing

Author: Laura Lunger Knoppers
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521885272
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 339

Book Description
Ideal for courses, this Companion examines the range, historical importance, and aesthetic merit of women's writing in Britain, 1500-1700.

The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First-Century American Poetry

Author: Timothy Yu
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108482090
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273

Book Description
This book offers a comprehensive introduction to studying the diversity of American poetry in the twenty-first century.

The Cambridge Companion to the History of the Book

Author: Leslie Howsam
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107023734
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 301

Book Description
An accessible and wide-ranging study of the history of the book within local, national and global contexts.

The Cambridge Companion to Virgil

Author: Charles Martindale
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521498852
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408

Book Description
Virgil became a school author in his own lifetime and the centre of the Western canon for the next 1800 years, exerting a major influence on European literature, art, and politics. This Companion is designed as an indispensable guide for anyone seeking a fuller understanding of an author critical to so many disciplines. It consists of essays by seventeen scholars from Britain, the USA, Ireland and Italy which offer a range of different perspectives both traditional and innovative on Virgil's works, and a renewed sense of why Virgil matters today. The Companion is divided into four main sections, focussing on reception, genre, context, and form. This ground-breaking book not only provides a wealth of material for an informed reading but also offers sophisticated insights which point to the shape of Virgilian scholarship and criticism to come.

The Cambridge Companion to Gay and Lesbian Writing

Author: Hugh Stevens
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521888441
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 271

Book Description
In the last two decades, lesbian and gay studies have transformed literary studies. The Cambridge Companion to Gay and Lesbian Writing introduces readers to important concepts, methods and cultural and historical debates relevant to the study of sexuality and literature.

The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century English Poetry

Author: Neil Corcoran
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 113982810X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 302

Book Description
The last century was characterised by an extraordinary flowering of the art of poetry in Britain. These specially commissioned essays by some of the most highly regarded poetry critics offer a stimulating and reliable overview of English poetry of the twentieth century. The opening section on contexts will both orientate readers relatively new to the field and provide provocative syntheses for those already familiar with it. Following the terms introduced by this section, individual chapters cover many ways of looking at the 'modern', the 'modernist' and the 'postmodern'. The core of the volume is made up of extensive discussions of individual poets, from W. B. Yeats and W. H. Auden to contemporary poets such as Simon Armitage and Carol Ann Duffy. In its coverage of the development, themes and contexts of modern poetry, this Companion is the most useful guide available for students, lecturers and readers.

The Cambridge Companion to Prose

Author: Daniel Tyler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781108940580
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 300

Book Description
This Companion provides an introduction to the craft of prose. It considers the technical aspects of style that contribute to the art of prose, examining the constituent parts of prose through a widening lens, from the smallest details of punctuation and wording to style more broadly conceived. The book is concerned not only with prose fiction but with creative non-fiction, a growing area of interest for readers and aspiring writers. Written by internationally-renowned critics, novelists and biographers, the essays provide readers and writers with ways of understanding the workings of prose. They are exemplary of good critical practice, pleasurable reading for their own sake, and both informative and inspirational for practising writers. The Cambridge Companion to Prose will serve as a key resource for students of English literature and of creative writing.