Every day I write the book: notes on style
"Every day I write the book, a guide to style and writing for academics, is Amitava Kumar's fifth book of creative nonfiction with Duke University Press. Written in short first-person vignettes, this book melds form and content to explore the writing process both in and out of the academy,...
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Zusammenfassung: | "Every day I write the book, a guide to style and writing for academics, is Amitava Kumar's fifth book of creative nonfiction with Duke University Press. Written in short first-person vignettes, this book melds form and content to explore the writing process both in and out of the academy, while offering a portrait of Kumar's writing life throughout. Kumar, whose background is in literary theory, cultural studies, and postcolonial theory, has long been a critic of academic writing and an advocate for academics to write in a more 'writerly' style. This book is an attempt to bring together reflections on Kumar's own writing style and models used by other academics. It notably collects firsthand testimony on writing from many established writers and academics-Anna Tsing, Jack Halberstam, Rob Nixon, and Kathleen Stewart, to name a few-and engages with the work of contemporary nonfiction writers such as Geoff Dyer, Claudia Rankine, and Maggie Nelson. The book is divided into nine sections-each with several sub-chapters-and two appendixes: Kumar's "Ten Rules of Writing" and a reprinted PEN 10 interview. It will be of wide interest to readers of creative nonfiction, as well as to scholars and students of writing and rhetoric"-- |
Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
Beschreibung: | 235 Seiten Illustrationen |
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adam_text | Contents Introduction. The 90-Day Book · 1 Part I. Self-Help Misery · 5 Good Sentences · 6 Read No Secondary Literature · 7 Read Junk · 9 Failure ■ 10 Running · 12 Sleep · 15 Kitchen Timer · 16 Self-Help · 17 Part II. Writing a Book: A Brief History Rules of Writing · 23 In Memory of · 24 Out of Place · 26 Eyes on the Ground · 28 The End of the Line · 30 Creative Criticism · 31 How to Throw Your Body · 36 Tm Feeling Myself · 38 Creative Writing · 39
Part III. Credos Declarations of Independence · 47 In Praise of Nonfiction · 54 There Is No Single Way · 56 How Proust Can Ruin Your Life · 57 Reality Hunger · 58 Depend on Your Dumbness · 60 Blackness (Unmitigated) · 62 Rage on the Page · 63 On Training · 68 Part IV. Form Light Years · 71 Neither/Nor · 72 Criticism by Other Means · 75 Paranoid Theory · 77 Erotic Style · 80 I Blame the Topic Sentence · 82 The Sound and the Fury · 83 In Defense of the Fragment ■ 86 Kids · 88
Part V. Academic interest Diana Studies · 91 Examined Life · 95 Occupy Writing · 96 Academic Sentence ■ 98 Dissertation Blah · 100 Your Job Is to Know a Lot · 102 Terminology · 103 Anti-Anti Jargon · 104 Monograph · 107 Part VI. Style But Life · in Sugared Violets · 112 Voice · 113 Wikileaks Manual of Style ■ 117 Detecting Style · 118 Strunk and White · 120 A Clean English Sentence · 122 Trade · 126 Recommendation Letter · 128 Part VII. Exercises Bad Writing · 137 Prompt · 139 Post-Its · 141 Revising · 142 Editing · 144 Performing It · 146 Rituals ■ 149
For Graduate Students · 152 Not Writing · 161 Part VIII. The Groves of Academe Academe · 165 Stoner · 167 Common Sense ■ 169 Titles · 170 Campus Criticism ■ 172 Farther Away · 176 Accountability · 177 Tenure Files ■ 179 Journals · 182 Part IX. Materials Photographs, etc. · 187 “Whos Got the Address?” (a Collaboration with Teju Cole) · 190 Acknowledgments · 197 Appendix A. Ten Rules of Writing ■ 201 Appendix B. PEN Ten Interview · 207 Notes · 211 Index · 231
Amitava Kumars Every Day I Write the Book is for academic writers what An nie Dillard’s The Writing Life and Stephen Kings On Writing are for creative writers. Alongside Kumar s interviews with an array of scholars whose distinct writing offers inspiring examples for students and academics alike, the books pages are full of practical advice about everything from how to write criticism to making use of a kitchen timer. Communication, engagement, honesty: these are the aims and sources of good writing. Storytelling, attention to organization, solid work habits: these are its tools. Kumars own voice is present in his essays about the writing process and in his perceptive and witty observations on the academic world. A writing manual as well as a manifesto, Every Day I Write the Book will interest and guide aspiring writers everywhere.
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Contents Introduction. "The 90-Day Book · 1 Part I. Self-Help Misery · 5 Good Sentences · 6 Read No Secondary Literature · 7 Read Junk · 9 Failure ■ 10 Running · 12 Sleep · 15 Kitchen Timer · 16 Self-Help · 17 Part II. Writing a Book: A Brief History Rules of Writing · 23 In Memory of · 24 Out of Place · 26 Eyes on the Ground · 28 The End of the Line · 30 Creative Criticism · 31 How to Throw Your Body · 36 Tm Feeling Myself · 38 Creative Writing · 39
Part III. Credos Declarations of Independence · 47 In Praise of Nonfiction · 54 There Is No Single Way · 56 How Proust Can Ruin Your Life · 57 Reality Hunger · 58 Depend on Your Dumbness · 60 Blackness (Unmitigated) · 62 Rage on the Page · 63 On Training · 68 Part IV. Form Light Years · 71 Neither/Nor · 72 Criticism by Other Means · 75 Paranoid Theory · 77 Erotic Style · 80 I Blame the Topic Sentence · 82 The Sound and the Fury · 83 In Defense of the Fragment ■ 86 Kids · 88
Part V. Academic interest Diana Studies · 91 Examined Life · 95 Occupy Writing · 96 Academic Sentence ■ 98 Dissertation Blah · 100 Your Job Is to Know a Lot · 102 Terminology · 103 Anti-Anti Jargon · 104 Monograph · 107 Part VI. Style But Life · in Sugared Violets · 112 Voice · 113 Wikileaks Manual of Style ■ 117 Detecting Style · 118 Strunk and White · 120 A Clean English Sentence · 122 Trade · 126 Recommendation Letter · 128 Part VII. Exercises Bad Writing · 137 Prompt · 139 Post-Its · 141 Revising · 142 Editing · 144 Performing It · 146 Rituals ■ 149
For Graduate Students · 152 Not Writing · 161 Part VIII. The Groves of Academe Academe · 165 Stoner · 167 Common Sense ■ 169 Titles · 170 Campus Criticism ■ 172 Farther Away · 176 Accountability · 177 Tenure Files ■ 179 Journals · 182 Part IX. Materials Photographs, etc. · 187 “Whos Got the Address?” (a Collaboration with Teju Cole) · 190 Acknowledgments · 197 Appendix A. Ten Rules of Writing ■ 201 Appendix B. PEN Ten Interview · 207 Notes · 211 Index · 231
Amitava Kumars Every Day I Write the Book is for academic writers what An nie Dillard’s The Writing Life and Stephen Kings On Writing are for creative writers. Alongside Kumar s interviews with an array of scholars whose distinct writing offers inspiring examples for students and academics alike, the books pages are full of practical advice about everything from how to write criticism to making use of a kitchen timer. Communication, engagement, honesty: these are the aims and sources of good writing. Storytelling, attention to organization, solid work habits: these are its tools. Kumars own voice is present in his essays about the writing process and in his perceptive and witty observations on the academic world. A writing manual as well as a manifesto, Every Day I Write the Book will interest and guide aspiring writers everywhere. |
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