The Sensibility and Craft of Editing Fiction
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The Fiction Editor, the Novel, and the Novelist
by Thomas McCormack
"Lucid, thoughtful...writers and teachers will learn much from it...Belongs wherever Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style finds frequent use.”--Booklist "Writers will actually learn things …
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The Rhetoric of Fiction
by Wayne C. Booth
A standard reference point in advanced discussions of how fictional form works, how authors make novels accessible, and how readers recreate texts. Its concepts and …
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A Rhetoric of Irony
by Wayne C. Booth
Perhaps no other critical label has been made to cover more ground than "irony," and in our time irony has come to have so many …
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Story
by Robert McKee
Robert McKee's screenwriting workshops have earned him an international reputation for inspiring novices, refining works in progress and putting major screenwriting careers back on track. …
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How Not to Write a Screenplay
by Denny Martin Flinn
All good screenplays are unique, but all bad screenplays are the same. Flinn's book will teach the reader how to avoid the pitfalls of bad …
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Poetics
by Aristotle
Essential reading for all students of Greek theatre and literature, and equally stimulating for anyone interested in literature In the Poetics, his near-contemporary account of …
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The Act of Reading
by Wolfgang Iser
By defining what happens during the act of reading, that is, how aesthetic experience is initiated, develops, and functions, Iser's book provides the first systematic …
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Letters to a Young Novelist
by Mario Vargas Llosa
A literary apprenticeship in letters draws on the works of international writers and on the author's own beliefs about writing, reading, and thought, identifying writers …
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Aspects of the Novel
by Edward Morgan Forster
A highly original and intelligent investigation of the novel from celebrated writer and "gentle genius" E. M. Forster E. M. Forster's renowned guide to writing …
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The Art of Fiction
by John Gardner
This classic guide, from the renowned novelist and professor, has helped transform generations of aspiring writers into masterful writers—and will continue to do so for …
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Max Perkins, Editor of Genius
by Andrew Scott Berg
Traces the life of the influential book editor who worked with Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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A Dictionary of Modern English Usage
by Henry Watson Fowler
Revised edition of an english-language dictionary comprising up-to-date definitions and guidelines as an aid in the correct use in writing and speaking of frequently misused …
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Getting it Published
by William P. Germano
Offers advice for would-be academic authors, covering topics from the basics of dealing with publishers to book proposals, contracts, writing for collections and anthologies, and …