Reading Like a Writer

Francine Prose takes your students on a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters-Dostoevsky, Flaubert, Kafka, Austen, Joyce, Woolf, Chekhov-and discovers why these writers endure. Throughout READING LIKE A WRITER, she cautions students to slow down and pay attention to words, the raw material out of which literature is crafted. The 28-page P.S. contains an author biography and READING AND WRITING: A CONVERSATION WITH FRANCINE PROSE--an extensive interview by Jessica Murphy--that first appeared in THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY online.

Product details

• Authors: Francine Prose
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 10.04.2007
• EAN: 9780060777050
• ISBN: 978-0-06-077705-0
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 202 mm x 17 mm
• Series: P.S.; P.S.
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Guides > Law, job, finance; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; COMPOSITION & WRITING: LITERARY CRITICISM, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM: General, LITERARY CRITICISM: Women Authors, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES: Writing / Authorship, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES: Linguistics / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES: Rhetoric