
A Self Made of Words
Crafting a Distinctive Persona in Nonfiction Writing
Carl H. Klaus(Author)
University of Iowa Press
Published on 1. November 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
98 pages
978-1-60938-194-3 (ISBN)
Description
In this ingenious little guide, essayist Carl Klaus shows you how to adapt your self to the needs of varied non-fiction, by varying his own persona to illustrate the distinctive effect produced by each aspect and element of writing. Klaus divides his book into two parts: an introduction to the nature and function of a persona, then a survey of the most important elements of writing that contribute to the character of a persona, from point of view and organisation to diction and sentence structure.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Iowa
United States
Dimensions
Height: 202 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
122 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-60938-194-3 (9781609381943)
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Person
Carl H. Klaus, founder of the University of Iowa's Nonfiction Writing Program, is professor emeritus at Iowa and coeditor (with Patricia Hampl) of Sightline Books: The Iowa Series in Literary Nonfiction. His widely praised nonfiction includes The Made-Up Self: Impersonation in the Personal Essay (Iowa, 2010), Letters to Kate: Life after Life (Iowa, 2006), My Vegetable Love: A Journal of a Growing Season (Iowa, 2000) and its companion, Weathering Winter (Iowa, 1997), as well as Taking Retirement: A Beginner's Diary. His most recent nonfiction project (coedited with Ned Stuckey-French) is Essayists on the Essay: Montaigne to Our Time (Iowa, 2012).