| The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again Contributor(s): Birkerts, Sven (Author) |
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ISBN: 1555974899 ISBN-13: 9781555974893 Publisher: Graywolf Press OUR PRICE: $12.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2007 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Writing - Nonfiction (incl. Memoirs) - Literary Criticism |
| Dewey: 808.066 |
| LCCN: 2007924774 |
| Series: Art of |
| Physical Information: 0.57" H x 5.1" W x 7" (0.46 lbs) 120 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes will provide a series of sustained examinations of key but sometimes neglected aspects of creative writing by some of contemporary literature's finest practioners. In The Art of Time in Memoir, critic and memoirist Sven Birkerts examines the human impulse to write about the self. By examining memoirs such as Vladimir Nabokov's Speak, Memory; Virginia Woolf's unfinished A Sketch of the Past; and Mary Karr's The Liars' Club, Birkerts describes the memoirist's essential art of assembling patterns of meaning, stirring to life our own sense of past and present. |
Contributor Bio(s): Birkerts, Sven: - Sven Birkerts is the author of several books, including The Art of Time in Memoir, Reading Life, Readings, and The Gutenberg Elegies. He has taught at Harvard University and currently directs the Bennington Writing Seminars and is the editor of AGNI. He lives in Massachusetts. |