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| Author | : Ursula K. Le Guin |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Total Pages | : 163 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0544611616 |
A revised and updated guide to the essentials of a writer's craft, presented by a brilliant practitioner of the art
| Author | : Ursula K. Le Guin |
| Publisher | : Tin House Books |
| Total Pages | : 150 |
| Release | : 2018-04-03 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1947793004 |
Ursula K. Le Guin discusses her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry?both her process and her philosophy?with all the wisdom, profundity, and rigor we expect from one of the great writers of the last century. When the New York Times referred to Ursula K. Le Guin as America’s greatest writer of science fiction, they just might have undersold her legacy. It’s hard to look at her vast body of work?novels and stories across multiple genres, poems, translations, essays, speeches, and criticism?and see anything but one of our greatest writers, period. In a series of interviews with David Naimon (Between the Covers), Le Guin discusses craft, aesthetics, and philosophy in her fiction, poetry, and nonfiction respectively. The discussions provide ample advice and guidance for writers of every level, but also give Le Guin a chance to to sound off on some of her favorite subjects: the genre wars, the patriarchy, the natural world, and what, in her opinion, makes for great writing. With excerpts from her own books and those that she looked to for inspiration, this volume is a treat for Le Guin’s longtime readers, a perfect introduction for those first approaching her writing, and a tribute to her incredible life and work.
| Author | : Ursula K. Le Guin |
| Publisher | : Ultramarine Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 1979 |
| Genre | : Fantastic fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780399504822 |
| Author | : John S. Letcher |
| Publisher | : International Marine Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 262 |
| Release | : 1974 |
| Genre | : Sailboats |
| ISBN | : 9780877420422 |
| Author | : Ursula K. Le Guin |
| Publisher | : Mariner Books |
| Total Pages | : 337 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 0358212103 |
A collection of essays on life and literature, from one of the most iconic authors and astute critics in contemporary letters. Words Are My Matter is essential reading: a collection of talks, essays, and criticism by Ursula K. Le Guin, a literary legend and unparalleled voice of our social conscience. Here she investigates the depth and breadth of contemporary fiction--and, through the lens of literature, gives us a way of exploring the world around us. In "Freedom," Le Guin notes: "Hard times are coming, when we'll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now ... to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We'll need writers who can remember freedom--poets, visionaries--realists of a larger reality." Le Guin was one of those authors and inWords Are My Matter she gives us just that: a vision of a better reality, fueled by the power and might and hope of language and literature.
| Author | : Lisa Zeidner |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 211 |
| Release | : 2021-02-09 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0393356124 |
A thorough, illuminating, and entertaining guide to crafting point of view, a fiction writer’s most essential choice. Who is telling the story to whom is the single most important question about any work of fiction; the answer is central to everything from style and tone to plot and pacing. Using hundreds of examples from Jane Austen to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Leo Tolstoy to Stephen King, novelist and longtime MFA professor Lisa Zeidner dives deep into the points of view we are most familiar with—first and third person—and moves beyond to second-person narration, frame tales, and even animal points of view. Engaging and accessible, Who Says? presents any practicing writer with a new system for choosing a point of view, experimenting with how it determines the narrative, and applying these ideas to revision.
| Author | : Jerome Stern |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 443 |
| Release | : 2011-04-11 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0393077691 |
A deft analysis and appreciation of fiction—what makes it work and what can make it fail. Here is a book about the craft of writing fiction that is thoroughly useful from the first to the last page—whether the reader is a beginner, a seasoned writer, or a teacher of writing. You will see how a work takes form and shape once you grasp the principles of momentum, tension, and immediacy. "Tension," Stern says, "is the mother of fiction. When tension and immediacy combine, the story begins." Dialogue and action, beginnings and endings, the true meaning of "write what you know," and a memorable listing of don'ts for fiction writers are all covered. A special section features an Alphabet for Writers: entries range from Accuracy to Zigzag, with enlightening comments about such matters as Cliffhangers, Point of View, Irony, and Transitions.
| Author | : Ursula K. Le Guin |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Total Pages | : 241 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 1328661598 |
From acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin, a collection of thoughts--always adroit, often acerbic--on aging, belief, the state of literature, and the state of the nation
| Author | : James Wood |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 300 |
| Release | : 2008-07-22 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780374173401 |
What makes a story a story? What is style? What’s the connection between realism and real life? These are some of the questions James Wood answers in How Fiction Works, the first book-length essay by the preeminent critic of his generation. Ranging widely—from Homer to David Foster Wallace, from What Maisie Knew to Make Way for Ducklings—Wood takes the reader through the basic elements of the art, step by step. The result is nothing less than a philosophy of the novel—plainspoken, funny, blunt—in the traditions of E. M. Forster’s Aspects of the Novel and Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style. It sums up two decades of insight with wit and concision. It will change the way you read.
| Author | : Ursula K. Le Guin |
| Publisher | : Shambhala Publications |
| Total Pages | : 137 |
| Release | : 2019-05-14 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1611807247 |
A rich, poetic, and socially relevant version of the great spiritual-philosophical classic of Taoism, the Tao Te Ching—from a legendary literary icon Most people know Ursula K. Le Guin for her extraordinary science fiction and fantasy. Fewer know just how pervasive Taoist themes are to so much of her work. And in Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching, we are treated to Le Guin’s unique take on Taoist philosophy’s founding classic. Le Guin presents Lao Tzu’s time-honored and astonishingly powerful philosophy like never before. Drawing on a lifetime of contemplation and including extensive personal commentary throughout, she offers an unparalleled window into the text’s awe-inspiring, immediately relatable teachings and their inestimable value for our troubled world. Jargon-free but still faithful to the poetic beauty of the original work, Le Guin’s unique translation is sure to be welcomed by longtime readers of the Tao Te Ching as well as those discovering the text for the first time.
