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Informationen zum Autor Robert Root's narratives of history and place include Recovering Ruth: A Biographer's Tale, Following Isabella: Travels in Colorado Then and Now, and Walking Home Ground: In the Footsteps of Muir, Leopold, and Derleth, and the essay collection Postscripts: Retrospections on Time and Place. He is the editor of the anthology Landscapes With Figures: The Nonfiction of Place and co-editor of the anthology The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction. He has published and presented widely on creative nonfiction.His essay "A Double Life," published in Writing on the Edge, won the 2007 Donald Murray Award for Best Essay on Writing and/or Teaching. "Postscript to a Postscript to 'The Ring of Time'," published in The Pinch, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and won the Council of Wisconsin Writers Short Nonfiction Award. He has been an Artist-in-Residence at Acadia National Park, Rocky Mountain National Park, and Isle Royale National Park, and a visiting writer at the Kachemak Bay, Sanibel Island, and Geneva Writers Conferences. He lives in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Further information is available at www.rootwriting.com. Klappentext As a vital and growing literary genre, nonfiction impacts bestseller lists, writing programs, writersO workshops, and academic conferences on creative writing, composition/rhetoric, and literature. In a lively exploration of its poetics, The NonfictionistOs Guide examines the elements of contemporary nonfiction and suggests imaginative approaches to writing it. Beginning with a new definition of nonfiction and explanation of the nonfiction motive, Robert Root guides both readers and writers through the innovative and stimulating ways we write nonfiction now. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 1 The Nature of Nonfiction Chapter 3 2 Not the Design of the Author Chapter 4 3 The Experimental Art Chapter 5 4 The Art of Seeing Chapter 6 5 Collage, Montage, Mosaic, Vignette, Episode, Segment Chapter 7 6 This Is What the Spaces Say Chapter 8 7 Immediacy Chapter 9 8 Distance Chapter 10 9 Writing by Ear Chapter 11 10 Place Chapter 12 11 Truth Chapter 13 12 Last Words Last Chapter 14 Notes and References...
