On Exploring Craft
Writers as Architects
1st Edition
Published on 12. December 2015
116 pages
978-0-7618-9034-8 (ISBN)
Description
The process of probing beneath and even shaving or sanding away the language undergirding literary works that, word by word, line by line and page by page, sustains a narrative's arc, contributes to the perspective of writer as architect. For it not only positions, but also reinforces the significance of line, mass, texture, balance, scale and proportion in a new world, a created structure and the spaces that organize it, that if expertly executed, endures over time.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Lanham
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
4 graphs
ISBN-13
978-0-7618-9034-8 (9780761890348)
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11/2015
University Press of America
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Person
Dr. Beatrice L. Bridglall is Fulbright Specialist in Higher Education; Chair of the Advisory Board for Student Success in Higher Education in New Jersey; and faculty affiliate at New York University-East China Normal University, Institute for Social Development at NYU Shanghai.
Content
Foreword by Rochelle Hendricks, Secretary of New Jersey Higher Education
Preface and Organization of the Book
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Writers as Architects: Exploring Parallel Concepts in Architecture and Literature
Chapter 2: A Meditation on Lines, Direction, Movement and Mass: The Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva
Chapter 3: Light, Color and Space in Select Poems by Robert Hass
Chapter 4: Glimpses of Proportion and Symmetry: F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
Chapter 5: Unraveling Texture in William Faulkner's Light in August
Chapter 6: Toward Plumbing Architectural and Narrative Space in Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, "Soldier's Home", and "A Clean Well-Lighted Place"
Chapter 7: Tension, Compression and Pacing in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and Pnin
Chapter 8: Exploring Pattern and Rhythm: Alice Munro's "Dulse" and "Labor Day Dinner"
Chapter 9: Appreciating Unity and Harmony in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day
Chapter 10: The Role of Order and Propriety in William Gass' In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
Chapter 11: Investigating Balance in Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary and The First Sentimental Education
References
Index
About the Author
Preface and Organization of the Book
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Writers as Architects: Exploring Parallel Concepts in Architecture and Literature
Chapter 2: A Meditation on Lines, Direction, Movement and Mass: The Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva
Chapter 3: Light, Color and Space in Select Poems by Robert Hass
Chapter 4: Glimpses of Proportion and Symmetry: F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
Chapter 5: Unraveling Texture in William Faulkner's Light in August
Chapter 6: Toward Plumbing Architectural and Narrative Space in Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, "Soldier's Home", and "A Clean Well-Lighted Place"
Chapter 7: Tension, Compression and Pacing in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and Pnin
Chapter 8: Exploring Pattern and Rhythm: Alice Munro's "Dulse" and "Labor Day Dinner"
Chapter 9: Appreciating Unity and Harmony in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day
Chapter 10: The Role of Order and Propriety in William Gass' In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
Chapter 11: Investigating Balance in Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary and The First Sentimental Education
References
Index
About the Author
