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Stranger at the door : writers and the act of writing / Kristjana Gunnars.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gunnars, Kristjana, 1948-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Creative writing.
- Authorship.
- Authors.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (136 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- At the beginning of a new writing project-whether it's the first page of a new novel or a less ambitious project, writers often experience exhilaration, fear, or dread. For Kristjana Gunnars, the call of a new project is ""like someone you don't know knocking on your door-you either choose to let the person in or not. It's both exciting and dangerous to start a new manuscript."" This book is an engagement with that ""stranger"" called writing. Creative or imaginative writing is a complex process that involves more than intellect alone. Writers make use of everything: their sensibi
- Contents:
- The art of solitude
- The diasporic imagination : writers' perspectives
- The home and the artist
- Transcultural appropriation : problems and perspectives
- Theory and fiction : the mixed bag of postmodern writing
- Writing and silence : the unteachable mystery of words
- On writing short books
- Poetry and the idea of home.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references: p. 117-121.
- ISBN:
- 9786610280742
- 9781554586943
- 1554586941
- 9781280280740
- 1280280743
- 9780889209329
- 0889209324
- 9781417563180
- 1417563184
- OCLC:
- 753479503
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