Creative Writing and Stylistics
Creative and Critical Approaches
Published on 20. December 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
248 pages
978-1-137-01065-0 (ISBN)
Description
Exploring the practice of writing through stylistics, Jeremy Scott draws on the work of writers and theorists to show how stylistic techniques can help writers enhance their own fiction. Negotiating the creative-critical crossover, this book helps students develop practical writing skills and a critical awareness of creative possibilities.
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Series
Edition
2013
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
313 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-137-01065-0 (9781137010650)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-137-01067-4
Schweitzer Classification
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01/2014
Red Globe Press
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E-Book
01/2014
Bloomsbury Academic
€62.99
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Person
Jeremy Scott is Lecturer in English at the University of Kent, UK. He has published many articles on contemporary fiction, narrative technique and stylistics-based approaches to the teaching of creative writing. He has also published several short stories and is currently working on a novel.
Content
Contents.- Acknowledgements.- Introduction: Style, Composition, Creative Practice.- 1. Seeing Through Language.- 2. Building Blocks I: A Grammar of Creative Writing.- 3. Building Blocks II: Narrative and Structure (Story Narratology).- 4. Through the Looking Glass: Who Sees? Who Tells? (Discourse Narratology).- 5. Writing Voices: Presenting Speech and Thought.- 6. Creating a World: Text-world Theory and Cognitive Poetics.- 7. Creative Writing: Figurative Language.- 8. Meaning and Play: Metaphor.- 9. Creating Soundscapes: Rhythm and Meter, Sound and Sense.- Appendix.- Notes.- Bibliography.- References and selected further reading.