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03635aam a22003498i 4500 001 B1196A20963411ED9CA5374839ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230117010056 008 220627s2023 txu b 000 0 eng 010 $a 2022018499 020 $a 1595349766 020 $a 9781595349767 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SILO 050 00 $a PN3355 $b .T86 2023 082 00 $2 23/eng/20220627 100 1 $a Turchi, Peter, $d 1960- $e author. 245 10 $a (DON'T) STOP ME IF YOU'VE HEARD THIS BEFORE : $b AND OTHER ESSAYS ON WRITING FICTION / $c Peter Turchi. 263 $a 2301 264 1 $a San Antonio, Texas : $b Trinity University Press, $c [2023] 300 $a pages cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 505 0 $a Power Plays: Toward More Dynamic Scenes -- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Information Dump: The Strategic Release of Information -- I See What You're Saying: Images and Motifs -- The Roast Beef Is the Story: Digression, Misdirection, and Asides-- Don't Stand So Close to Me: Narrative Distance in First-Person Fiction -- Don't Stand So Close to Her, or Him, or Them, Either: Narrative Distance in Third Person Fiction -- (Don't) Stop Me If You've Heard This Before: Storytelling Characters -- Archimedes's Lever: Setting a Narrative World in Motion -- Appendixes -- A. Out of the Workshop, into the Laboratory -- B. Annotations, or, Reading like a Writer -- C. Resources for Fiction Writers. 520 $a "In (Don't) Stop Me If You've Heard This Before, Peter Turchi combines personal narrative and close reading of a wide range of stories and novels to reveal how writers create the fiction that matters to us. Building on his much-loved Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer, Turchi leads readers and writers to an understanding of how the intricate mechanics of storytelling-including shifts in characters' authority, the subtle manipulation of images, careful attention to point of view, the strategic release of information, and even digressing from the (apparent) story-can create powerful effects. Using examples from Dickens, Chekhov, and Salinger, and Twain to more contemporary writers including Toni Morrison, Alice Munro, E. L. Doctorow, JennyErpenbeck, Adam Johnson, Mohsin Hamid, Jai Chakrabarti, Yoko Ogawa, Richard Powers, Deborah Eisenberg, Olga Tokarczuk, Rachel Cusk, and Colson Whitehead, Turchi offers illuminating insights into the inner workings of fiction as well as practical advice for writers looking to explore their craft from a fresh angle beyond the fundamentals of character and setting, plot, and scene. While these essays draw from decades of teaching undergraduate and graduate students, they also speak to writers working on their own. In "Out of the Workshop, into the Laboratory," Turchi discusses how anyone can make the most of discussions of stories or novels in progress, and in "Reading Like a Writer" he provides guidelines for learning from writing you admire. Perhaps best of all, these essays by a writer the Houston Chronicle has called "one of the country's foremost thinkers on the art of writing" are as entertaining as they are edifying, always reminding us of the power and pleasure of storytelling"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Fiction $x Authorship. $9 69606 650 0 $a Fiction $x Technique. $9 66704 655 7 $a Essays. $2 lcgft $9 131056 941 $a 4 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20230502010818.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20230221011435.0 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20230202011249.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20230117010157.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B1196A20963411ED9CA5374839ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search