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As We Were Saying : Sewanee Writers on Writing / edited by Wyatt Prunty, Megan Roberts, and Adam Latham.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Authorship.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (288 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- Every summer for the past thirty years, the Sewanee Writers' Conference has gathered a community of writers for two weeks of workshops, readings, talks, and meetings focused on the craft and art of writing. This book is a selection of craft talks delivered during the conference over the last several years. Some essays focus on one or two authors, some focus on texts, while others cast their regard more broadly. All are written in response to questions generated by the process of writing, as masters of the craft candidly report challenges they confront and the means by which they work to resolve such issues. The eighteen essays encompass poetry, fiction, and playwriting, investigating questions of language, character, design, and meaning, with nuanced readings of particular authors and works alongside more wide-ranging reflections on craft. Designed for audiences of writers and readers across multiple levels and backgrounds, the essays collected in As We Were Saying offer original, insightful arguments about the craft of writing and the power of literature.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- Story
- Narrative Architecture and the Inhabitation of Story
- The Character of Our Character: Reality, Actuality, and Technique in Fiction and Nonfiction
- “Is There a Plot in This Poem?”
- What Makes a Play a Play?
- Seven Types of Ambivalence: On Donald Justice
- S Is for Something: Mark Strand and Artistic Identity
- The Train Stops Here: The Optimism of Revision
- The Starting Line
- Unspeakable: Speech on Stage
- Birds of America: Or, Tell Me a Story about Farming, Haunted Houses, and Poetry in Motion
- Haunted
- Why Literature Can Save Us
- Inside “Out, Out—”
- Technique Makes Imagination Matter More
- Metaphor: The Fundament of Imaginative Writing
- The Directing Sentence
- Rationed Compassion: Philip Larkin and Richard Wilbur
- Contributors
- Index Generated by AI.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9780807175774
- 0807175773
- OCLC:
- 1226073169
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