Why writing matters / Nicholas Delbanco.

By:

Delbanco, Nicholas, 1942-

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Series: Why X matters | Why X mattersPublisher: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2020Description: xix, 259 pages ; 21 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780300245974 (hardcover)
0300245971 (hardcover)

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Genre/Form:

DDC classification:

808.02

LOC classification:

PN 145 D344w 2020

Contents:

Teachers -- Imitation -- Five texts -- True or false -- Strategies in prose -- Originality -- More matter -- Students -- Addenda, Corrigenda.

Summary: In this new contribution to Yale University Press's Why X Matters series, a distinguished writer and scholar tackles central questions of the discipline of writing. Drawing on his own experience with mentors such as John Updike, John Gardner, and James Baldwin, and in turn having taught such rising stars as Jesmyn Ward, Delbanco looks in particular at questions of influence and the contradictory, simultaneous impulses toward imitation and originality. Part memoir, part literary history, and part analysis, this unique text will resonate with students, writers, writing teachers, and bibliophiles.

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Humanidades	Humanidades (4to. Piso)	PN 145 D344w 2020 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		00000180894

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-259).

Teachers -- Imitation -- Five texts -- True or false -- Strategies in prose -- Originality -- More matter -- Students -- Addenda, Corrigenda.

In this new contribution to Yale University Press's Why X Matters series, a distinguished writer and scholar tackles central questions of the discipline of writing. Drawing on his own experience with mentors such as John Updike, John Gardner, and James Baldwin, and in turn having taught such rising stars as Jesmyn Ward, Delbanco looks in particular at questions of influence and the contradictory, simultaneous impulses toward imitation and originality. Part memoir, part literary history, and part analysis, this unique text will resonate with students, writers, writing teachers, and bibliophiles.

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