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Telling Stories - An Anthology for Writers (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Telling Stories - An Anthology for WritersUsing the reading list for her writing seminar at Princeton University, Joyce Carol Oates presents over 90 works of narrative art. Here are classics and relative unknowns, short vignettes and long genre fiction, tragic tales and humorous character sketches. Oates chose pieces that will inspire beginning and experienced writers alike. In special sections, Oates offers her understanding of the story
Full description- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- Published: 19 November 1997
- Format: Hardback 752 pages
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- Categories: Creative Writing & Creative Writing Guides | Writing & Editing Guides | Anthologies (non-poetry) | Literary Studies: From C 1900 - | Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers | Short Stories
- ISBN 13: 9780393971767 ISBN 10: 0393971767
- Sales rank: 298,245
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Full description for Telling Stories - An Anthology for Writers
Oates s chapter introductions and afterword on the writing workshop offer students encouragement, advice, and exercises for honing their skills.As a teacher, Oates emphasizes the importance of reading widely with enthusiasm, pleasure, and purpose. Telling Stories reflects this emphasis, introducing students to a variety of models for their own writing and encouraging them to concentrate on details, revise often, make material their own, experiment with genre, and ultimately find their own voice.Edited by a contemporary master of the storyteller s art "who defines herself primarily as a friend of the text and a friend of the writer," Telling Stories is the perfect anthology for creative writing workshops and fiction classes and a wellspring of inspiration for any beginning writer."The love of storytelling to hear stories, and to tell them is universal in our species. Those with an apparent talent for writing. . . are not of a special breed but simply mirror the common human desire. [If] you have a natural talent for writing, and a love of the imagination, you risk a lifelong deprivation if you fail to cultivate it as vigorously as you can. Write your own great American novel . . . you re talented, you re intelligent, you have the driving passion, and you know as much as anyone about American life. Your story belongs uniquely to you." Joyce Carol Oates, from the Introduction
