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"All narrative writing must pull from the raw material of life a tale that will shape experience, transform event, deliver a bit of wisdom. In a story or a novel the "I" who tells this tale can be, and often is, an unreliable narrator, but in nonfiction the reader must always be persuaded that the narrator is speaking truth.".
"How does one pull from one's own boring, agitated self the reliable narrator who will tell the story that needs to be told? That is the question The Situation and the Story asks, and answers. Using some of the best memoirs and essays of the past hundred years, Vivian Gornick traces the changing idea of self that has dominated the century and demonstrates the enduring truth-speaker to be found in the work of writers as diverse as Edmund Gosse, Joan Didion, and Oscar Wilde.".
"This book, which grew out of fifteen years of teaching in M.F.A. programs, is itself a model of the lucid intelligence that has made Gornick one of our most admired writers of nonfiction. In it, she teaches us to write by teaching us how to read: how to recognize truth when we hear it in the writing of others and in our own."--BOOK JACKET.
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Autobiography, History and criticism, Rhetoric, American prose literature, English language, English prose literature, Authorship, Narration (Rhetoric), Historia y crítica, Arte de escribir, Autobiografía, Retórica, Inglés, Prosa estadounidense, Prosa inglesa, Autobiograpfía, Narración (Retórica), Autobiography., New York Times reviewed, Written communication, English prose literature, history and criticism, American prose literature, history and criticism, English language, rhetoric, Narration (rhetoric), English prose literature--history and criticism, American prose literature--history and criticism, English language--rhetoric, Autobiography--authorship, Pr756.a9 g67 2002, 820.9/492Showing 6 featured editions. View all 6 editions?
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The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative
2002, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative
2002, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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The situation and the story: the art of personal narrative
2002, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
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The situation and the story: the art of personal narrative
2001, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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