Why Writing Matters (Why X Matters S.) - Softcover

Delbanco, Nicholas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300264828 ISBN 13: 9780300264821

Verlag: Yale University Press, 2022

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Drawing lessons from writers of all ages and writing across genres, a distinguished teacher and writer reveals the enduring importance of writing for our time

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 such mentors 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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Nicholas Delbanco is the Robert Frost Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan. He has published thirty previous books of fiction and nonfiction, including The Count of Concord, Spring and Fall, The Countess of Stanlein Restored, and The Lost Suitcase: Reflections on the Literary Life.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Yale University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• ISBN 10: 0300264828
• ISBN 13: 9780300264821
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 296