A field guide for immersion writing : memoir, journalism, and travel / Robin Hemley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hemley, Robin, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reportage literature--Authorship.

Reportage literature.

Creative nonfiction.

Physical Description:

193 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2012]

Summary:

Hemley (English, U. of Iowa) is the author or editor of eight books, including both nonfiction and fictional works. He offers fellow writers, from beginners to advanced, a discussion of immersion writing, a genre of nonfiction that engages the writer in the present world around him or her to relay a story about what's happening in the present, but shaped by aspects of the author's own personality such as his or her memories, culture, and opinions. For each of three forms of immersion writing--immersion journalism, travel writing, and immersion memoir--Hemley examines how the forms can be considered in five ways--as quest, experiment, investigation, reenactment, infiltration--and suggests ways to use these subcategories to shape and organize one's writing. The principles are illustrated throughout with examples from published nonfiction works. No subject index. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0820342556

9780820338507

0820338508

9780820342559

OCLC:

762134787

Publisher Number:

99948067688