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Arvon Book of Life Writing: Writing Biography, Autobiography and Memoir [Mīkstie vāki]

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Sally Cline, Carole Angier

Formāts: Paperback / softback, 288 pages, height x width x depth: 198x129x22 mm
Izdošanas datums: 01-Jun-2010
Izdevniecība: Methuen Drama
ISBN-10: 1408124181
ISBN-13: 9781408124185

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Formāts: Paperback / softback, 288 pages, height x width x depth: 198x129x22 mm
Izdošanas datums: 01-Jun-2010
Izdevniecība: Methuen Drama
ISBN-10: 1408124181
ISBN-13: 9781408124185

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Creative writing & creative writing guides - (Noliktavā: 16 punkts)

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This book shows how the best writers tell them, and offers advice on how to tell them yourself.

Biographers Sally Cline and Carole Angier teach life writing-an area of creative writing that is exploding in popularity-at the world-famous Arvon Foundation. They have distilled the essence of their popular course on memoir, autobiography and biography into this wide-ranging book. The Arvon Book of Life Writing offers three fascinating ways into the genre. First, reflections on their trade by the authors, exploring its special challenges; truth, memory, ethics, evidence and interpretation.

Second, personal tips and tales from 32 top British and American life writers-autobiographers and memoirists, literary, sports and celebrity biographers; plus a critic, an agent, a literary editor, two novelists, and a ghost writer.

Third, a practical guide, complete with exercises, designed for use in creative writing courses or by individual writers at home. No other book contains such detailed, witty and professional advice on the genre.

This practical handbook for writers includes the best resources and techniques from the world famous Arvon writing course. It answers the key questions writers have when tackling a biography or memoir—methods of research, authorization, interpretation, and a variety of ethical issues. The book is filled with practical exercises to develop writing skills in empathy, managing drama and suspense, interviewing, narration and reflection and developing the story line plus has professional advice from twenty well-known literary, cultural, political, sports and celebrity biographers, family memoirists, travel writers and ghost writers.

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'For anyone who has ever read a biography or memoir, or thought of writing one - this book of advice from the best writers in the UK is an instant classic' Elaine Showalter, July 2010 'a useful and level-headed primer' Literary Review (September 2010)

Papildus informācija

Foreword by leading biographer Michael Holroyd In association with the prestigious Arvon Foundation - the leading professional writing course (tutors have ranged from Beryl Bainbridge to Ian McEwan; past students have included Wendy Cope and Susanna Clarke) Includes tips from 32 leading writers including Andrew Morton, Alan Bennett, Alain de Botton, Victoria Glendinning, Hermione Lee, Jenni Murray, Edmund White

Foreword

Michael Holroyd

Preface

xiii

The Arvon Book of Life Writing

xiv

Part One Life Writing

xiv

Part Two Tips & tales

Part Three Write on

xvi

Introduction

(2)

Why do people read life writing?

(2)

Part 1 Life Writing

(98)

Reflections 1

(17)

Carole Angier

1 A note

(1)

2 Alarums and invasions

(3)

3 Ethics and legality

(4)

4 Truth and objectivity

(4)

5 Art and evidence

(5)

Reflections 2

(25)

Sally Cline

1 Reflections on the role of a life writer

(7)

2 Reflections on myth and memory

(6)

3 Reflections on truth

(7)

4 Reflections on telling stories, telling facts

(5)

Tradition

(14)

Biography

(1)

Carole Angier

Beginnings

(2)

Middle Ages

(1)

The Renaissance

(1)

The seventeenth century

(2)

The early eighteenth century

(1)

The eighteenth century: the arrival of modern biography

(2)

Victorian blight

(1)

The early twentieth century

(1)

Between the wars

(1)

The post-war period

(2)

Biography in fiction

(3)

Carole Angier

Autobiography

(10)

Sally Cline

What is autobiography?

(3)

Why do people write autobiographies?

(1)

Where to start

(2)

History and development of contemporary autobiographies

(2)

Are all autobiographies written by their subjects?

(2)

Autobiographical writing in other genres

(8)

Sally Cline

Changes

(1)

Autobiographical novels

(4)

Autobiography in creative non-fiction

(1)

Autobiographical poetry

(1)

Exploitation

(2)

Memoir 1

(8)

Carole Angier

Travel and adventure

(3)

War and Holocaust

(1)

Frauds, fakes and fiction

(3)

Memoir 2

(8)

Sally Cline

What distinguishes memoir from autobiography?

(1)

Types of memoirs

(1)

Family and childhood memoirs

(1)

Misery memoirs

(2)

Illness

(4)

Diaries, blogs, twitters

(3)

Carole Angier

Part 2 Tips and Tales - guest contributions

101

(52)

Diana Athill

103

(2)

Alan Bennett

105

(1)

Alain de Botton

105

(2)

Jill Dawson

107

(1)

Millicent Dillon

108

(2)

Margaret Drabble

110

(1)

Geoff Dyer

111

(2)

Victoria Glendinning

113

(1)

Lyndal Gordon

114

(2)

Peter Hayter

116

(1)

Richard Holmes

117

(3)

Michael Holroyd

120

(1)

Kathryn Hughes

121

(1)

Diane Johnson

122

(2)

Hermione Lee

124

(2)

Andrew Lownie

126

(1)

Janet Malcolm

127

(2)

Alexander Masters

129

(1)

Nancy Milford

130

(1)

Blake Morrison

131

(2)

Andrew Morton

133

(1)

Clare Mulley

134

(1)

Jenni Murray

135

(2)

Nicholas Murray

137

(2)

Kristina Olsson

139

(1)

Marion Elizabeth Rodgers

140

(2)

Meryle Secrest

142

(2)

Miranda Seymour

144

(1)

Frances Spalding

145

(3)

Hilary Spurling

148

(1)

Boyd Tonkin

149

(2)

Edmund White

151

(2)

Part 3 Write on

153

(86)

Planning

155

(33)

Important general points for all life writers

155

(1)

1 Planning a biography

156

(1)

How to choose a subject

156

(2)

Checking out

158

(1)

Level of work

159

(1)

Extra skills you may need to acquire

159

(1)

Types of biography

160

(1)

Practical issues, especially cost

161

(2)

2 Planning a memoir

163

(1)

Cost of writing memoirs

164

(1)

3 Planning an autobiography

165

(1)

Cost of writing an autobiography

165

(1)

4 When you have decided on you biography, memoir or autobiography

166

(2)

Planning proposals for biography, autobiography and memoir

168

(1)

Choosing titles for biography, autobiography and memoir

169

(1)

Grants and other sources of funding for biography, autobiography and memoir

170

(1)

Other helpful information at the general planning stage

171

(1)

Mentoring

171

(1)

Literary consultancies

172

(1)

Courses

172

(1)

Journals

173

(1)

Organisations

173

(2)

Planning your writing - all genres

175

(1)

1 Referential matter

175

(1)

2 Use of preface and prologue for biographies, memoirs and autobiographies

175

(1)

Preface

175

(1)

Prologue or introduction for biographies, autobiographies and memoirs

176

(1)

3 Structure

177

(1)

Biography

177

(4)

Biography and memoir

181

(3)

Autobiography

184

(2)

Chapter breakdown in all genres

186

(2)

Research

188

(20)

A Where to go

188

(1)

Basic printed resources

188

(1)

National archives

189

(1)

Local archives

189

(2)

Libraries & museums

191

(1)

Libraries

191

(1)

University libraries

192

(1)

Public libraries

192

(1)

Other libraries

192

(2)

Museums

194

(1)

Online sources

195

(1)

B What to do

196

(1)

For biography

197

(1)

C Other things to do in the research period

198

(1)

198

(1)

For autobiography and memoir

199

(2)

D Interviewing for all the genres

201

(1)

What to think about when interviewing

202

(4)

E The last thing to thing to think about before writing

206

(1)

For biography

207

(1)

For autobiography and memoir

207

(1)

Writing

208

(31)

Where to start

208

(1)

Managing time in all the genres

209

(1)

1 Narration in autobiography and memoir

209

(1)

2 Narration in biography

210

(1)

Viewpoint in biography

211

(3)

Truth in biography

214

(1)

Truth in autobiography and memoir

215

(2)

Ethics in all genres

217

(3)

How to manage balance

220

(1)

1 Balancing empathy and detachment

220

(1)

2 Balancing accuracy and elegance

221

(2)

How to manage fictional techniques

223

(1)

Description

223

(1)

Dialogue

223

(1)

For biography

223

(1)

For memoir and autobiography

224

(2)

Suspense

226

(1)

Pace and narrative drive

227

(1)

Rhythm and variation

228

(1)

Conflict

228

(1)

Characterisation

229

(1)

Imagery and symbolism

229

(2)

Irony and humour

231

(1)

Playing with order

232

(1)

Playing with tense

233

(2)

Good openings

235

(1)

Satisfying endings

236

(2)

What to avoid in all writing

238

(1)

Acknowledgements

239

(2)

Permissions

241

(1)

Address list

242

(2)

Bibliography

244

(15)

The Arvon Foundation

259

(2)

Index

261

Carole Angier is the biographer of Jean Rhys: Life & Work (shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize and winner of a Writers' Guild Non-Fiction Award) and The Double Bond: A Life of Primo Levi. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and currently a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Oxford Brookes University. She has edited several books of refugee writing, and teaches life writing at Birkbeck College, London University. Sally Cline, award-winning biographer, short story writer and winner of the BBC short story contest, is the author of ten books, including ground-breaking biographies of Radclyffe Hall, Zelda Fitzgerald, and Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Advisory Fellow for the Royal Literary Fund and a judge and mentor for the Arts Council Escalator scheme. Sally has an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Anglia Ruskin University, where she is Writer in Residence and a mentor on the MA in Creative Writing. Both Carole and Sally work as one-to-one mentors with emerging writers.

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