Titre : |
The practice of writing. |
Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
Auteurs : |
Lodge David, Auteur |
Editeur : |
Penguin books |
Année de publication : |
(November 1, 1997) |
Importance : |
352 p. |
Format : |
13cm*20cm. |
ISBN/ISSN/EAN : |
978-0-14-026106-6 |
Langues : |
Anglais (eng) Langues originales : Anglais (eng) |
Index. décimale : |
420 Anglais et vieil anglais (anglo-saxon) : indice de base 42 |
Résumé : |
Lodge, a wry and stylish British novelist (Changing Places) and former university professor, has collected a fair sample of his literary criticism and re-formed it into an insightful and surprisingly unified look at the craft of writing. He says flat out that this is not a book of literary theory but an examination of the way writers go about their work. His aim, he writes, is to demystify and shed light on the creative process, to explain how literary and dramatic works are made, and to describe the many different factors, not always under the control of the writer, that came into play in the process. The result is a book that should be required reading in any creative writing class not bogged down in dogma. Lodge reviews the work of a number of writers?Graham Greene, D.H. Lawrence, Henry Green, Kingsley Amis, Anthony Burgess, Joyce, Nabokov?but the heart of the book is a series of essays on adapting his own work, as well as Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit, for television, and on staging a sketch by Harold Pinter |
The practice of writing. [texte imprimé] / Lodge David, Auteur . - [S.l.] : Penguin books, (November 1, 1997) . - 352 p. ; 13cm*20cm. ISBN : 978-0-14-026106-6 Langues : Anglais ( eng) Langues originales : Anglais ( eng)
Index. décimale : |
420 Anglais et vieil anglais (anglo-saxon) : indice de base 42 |
Résumé : |
Lodge, a wry and stylish British novelist (Changing Places) and former university professor, has collected a fair sample of his literary criticism and re-formed it into an insightful and surprisingly unified look at the craft of writing. He says flat out that this is not a book of literary theory but an examination of the way writers go about their work. His aim, he writes, is to demystify and shed light on the creative process, to explain how literary and dramatic works are made, and to describe the many different factors, not always under the control of the writer, that came into play in the process. The result is a book that should be required reading in any creative writing class not bogged down in dogma. Lodge reviews the work of a number of writers?Graham Greene, D.H. Lawrence, Henry Green, Kingsley Amis, Anthony Burgess, Joyce, Nabokov?but the heart of the book is a series of essays on adapting his own work, as well as Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit, for television, and on staging a sketch by Harold Pinter |
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