Writing Fiction: Creative and Critical Approaches

ISBN-13: 9781403988119 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 224 str.

Amanda Boulter

Opis

Exploring writing as a practice, Boulter draws from the work of writers and theorists to show how cultural and literary debates can help writers enhance their own fiction. Negotiating the creative-critical crossover, this is an approachable book that helps students develop practical writing skills and a critical awareness of creative possibilities.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- PART I: FOUNDATIONS.- Establishing Practice.- Form and Structure.- Subject.- Voice.- Style.- Foundations of Fiction.- Exercises.- PART II: SPECULATIONS.- Exploring Possibilities.- Forms and Structures.- Subjects.- Voices.- Styles.- Speculations in Fiction.- Exercises.- Selected Further Reading.- Index.

O autorze

AMANDA BOULTER is Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at the University of Winchester, UK. She is the author of Around the Houses and Back Around the Houses both published by Serpent's Tail.