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The Most Comprehensive writing resource a teacher can own! 300
"Quickwrites"; a calendar of 25 topics each month for short, daily
practice; 209 story starters and titles for longer, more formal
writings; 151 reproducible writing forms. 12 monthly sections.
Undoing the Silence offers guidance to help both citizens and
professionals influence democratic process through letters,
articles, reports and public testimony. Louise Dunlap, PhD, began
her career as an activist writing instructor during the Free Speech
Movement of the 1960s. She learned that listening and gaining a
feel for audience are just as important to social transformation as
the outspoken words of student leaders atop police cars. "Free
speech is a first step, but real communication matches speech with
listening and understanding. That is when thinking shifts and
change happens." Dunlap felt compelled to go where the silences
were deepest because her work aimed not just at teaching but also
at healing both individual voices and an ailing collective voice.
Her tales of those adventures and what she knows about the culture
of silence -- how gender, race, education, class, and family work
to quiet dissent -- are interwoven with practical methods for
people to put their most challenging ideas into words. Louise
Dunlap gives writing workshops around the country for universities
and social justice, environmental, and peace organizations that
help reluctant writers get past their internal censors to find
their powerful voice. Her insight strengthens strategic thinking
and her "You can do it!" approach makes social-action writing
achievable for everyone.
"It's not about whether or not the stories are being told, because
they are. Every day, all around you, stories are told. It's not
about that. It's about whether or not you choose to listen."
Investigating a dusty museum after dark, the discovery of a shining
sword thrust into an ancient stone resurrects a figure from
Arthurian legend - Merlin! As the wizard weaves his words and
magic, a group of friends are transported on an incredible journey
- into the past and the future - to shadowy caves in dark forests
and rocketing beyond the stars. The Tales of Merlin proves that the
world is made up of stories and we all have a part to play in
telling them ...
What choices must a biographer make when stitching the pieces of
a life into one coherent whole? How do we best create an accurate
likeness of a private life from the few articles that linger after
death? How do we choose what gets left out? This intriguing and
witty collection of essays by an internationally acclaimed
biographer looks at how biography deals with myths and legends,
what goes missing and what can't be proved in the story of a life.
"Virginia Woolf's Nose" presents a variety of case-studies, in
which literary biographers are faced with gaps and absences,
unprovable stories and ambiguities surrounding their subjects. By
looking at stories about Percy Bysshe Shelley's shriveled, burnt
heart found pressed between the pages of a book, Jane Austen's
fainting spell, Samuel Pepys's lobsters, and the varied versions of
Virginia Woolf's life and death, preeminent biographer Hermione Lee
considers how biographers deal with and often utilize these missing
body parts, myths, and contested data to "fill in the gaps" of a
life story.
In "Shelley's Heart and Pepys's Lobsters," an essay dealing with
missing parts and biographical legends, Hermione Lee discusses one
of the most complicated and emotionally charged examples of the
contested use of biographical sources. "Jane Austen Faints" takes
five competing versions of the same dramatic moment in the writer's
life to ask how biography deals with the private lives of famous
women. "Virginia Woolf's Nose" looks at the way this legendary
author's life has been translated through successive
transformations, from biography to fiction to film, and suggests
there can be no such thing as a definitive version of a life.
Finally, "How to End It All" analyzes the changing treatment of
deathbed scenes in biography to show how biographical conventions
have shifted, and asks why the narrators and readers of
life-stories feel the need to give special meaning and emphasis to
endings.
Virginia Woolf's Nose sheds new light on the way biographers
bring their subjects to life as physical beings, and offers
captivating new insights into the drama of "life-writing."
"Virginia Woolf's Nose" is a witty, eloquent, and funny text by
a renowned biographer whose sensitivity to the art of telling a
story about a human life is unparalleled--and in creating it, Lee
articulates and redefines the parameters of her craft.
Adaptation was central to Andre Bazin's lifelong query: What is
cinema? Placing films alongside literature allowed him to identify
the aesthetic and sociological distinctiveness of each medium. More
importantly, it helped him wage his campaign for a modern
conception of cinema, one that owed a great deal to developments in
the novel. The critical genius of one of the greatest film and
cultural critics of the twentieth century is on full display in
this collection, in which readers are introduced to Bazin's
foundational concepts of the relationship between film and literary
adaptation. Expertly curated and with an introduction by celebrated
film scholar Dudley Andrew, the book begins with a selection of
essays that show Bazin's film theory in action, followed by reviews
of films adapted from renowned novels of the day (Conrad,
Hemingway, Steinbeck, Colette, Sagan, Duras, and others) as well as
classic novels of the nineteenth century (Bronte, Melville,
Tolstoy, Balzac, Hugo, Zola, Stendhal, and more). As a bonus, two
hundred and fifty years of French fiction are put into play as
Bazin assesses adaptation after adaptation to determine what is at
stake for culture, for literature, and especially for cinema. This
volume will be an indispensable resource for anyone interested in
literary adaptation, authorship, classical film theory, French film
history, and Andre Bazin's criticism.
Sooner or later, most of us get stuck. Feel stuck. Our creativity
in crisis... lost, blocked, overwhelmed by work, family, illness.
How to find or recover that creative edge? How to get unstuck? For
the authors, it began with cancer and stretched into the pandemic.
One primarily a writer and the other a painter, they decide to walk
together, to talk, write, feed back, reflect and repeat, again and
again. They explore trust, openness, motherhood, their willingness
to take risks and be exposed, and the particular insights they
bring as women. Along the way, they walk and map their way back to
creative life. This is their story, but more than that - it's a map
for anyone who is feeling stuck. Whether or not you have had a
creative practice before (writing/painting/making/crafting), this
book will help you find your way into creative expression. The
authors offer creative tasks and suggestions in each chapter, and
ideas and structures to get you going. But most important, they
offer warmth, friendship and inspiration from their own shared
vulnerability, struggle, setbacks and muddy walking.
Power and Identity In the Creative Writing Classroom remaps
theories and practices for teaching creative writing at university
and college level. This collection critiques well-established
approaches for teaching creative writing in all genres and builds a
comprehensive and adaptable pedagogy based on issues of authority,
power, and identity. A long-needed reflection, this book shapes
creative writing pedagogy for the 21st century.
Ian McEwan, Margaret Drabble, Martin Amis, Rita Dove, Andrew Motion
and Anthony Thwaite are among the twenty-two distinguished
contributors of original essays to this landmark volume on the
profound and frequently perplexing bond between writer and mother.
In compelling detail they bring to life the thoughts, work, loves,
friendships, passions and, above all, the influence of mothers upon
their literary offspring from Shakespeare to the present. Many of
the contributors evoke the ideal with fond and loving memories:
understanding, selfless, spiritual, tender, protective, reassuring
and self-assured mothers who created environments favorable to the
development of their children's gifts. At the opposite end of the
parenting spectrum, however, we also see tortured mothers who
ignored, interfered with, smothered or abandoned their children.
Their early years were times of traumatic loss, unhappily dominated
by death and human frailty. Elegantly assembled and presented,
Writers and Their Mothers will appeal to everyone interested in
biography, literature, and creativity in general.
Based on the author's teaching methods and experience, the book
presents an examination and analysis of the creative process of
playwriting through the insight of the very foundations of drama
and theatre-the ritual process. Using the playwright as a ritual
quester, it attempts to concretize the playwright's creative
experience from the gestation of a dramatic idea, through the
development of that idea, to its expression as a scripted and
theatrical expression. To give the concept a wider scope, parallels
and/or contrasts are often made with similar creative experiences,
especially performative. The first part of the book visually
crystallizes the ritual-creative concept in the psychical
emanations of the questing playwright; the second part locates the
concept in the dramatic structure, a result of the physical
engagement, struggle and expression of the playwright. Various
established dramatic works, classical and contemporary, are used to
illustrate this creative concept.
Discover five imaginary islands that lie waiting for you in the sea
of creativity, each with an itinerary specially devised to lead you
on writing adventures. Sail to the Island of Wu-Wei, where writing
is effortless. Follow your creative intuition around the the Island
of Wuzhi and write spontaneously on the Isand of Ziran. Visit the
Island of Xin to write from the body and explore creative tension
on the Island of Yin-Yang. Using poetry and prose, the 25
excursions in this workbook will encourage you to experiment and
cultivate a writing habit, even if you only have half an hour a day
to spare. There are many approaches to 'learning' creative writing.
The approach that underpins this workbook is inspired by practice.
It is founded on the idea that what writers need most is to write.
Writers find their feet by writing. They tune their voices by
writing. To write frequently and with abandon allows you to explore
the palettes and scenery of your creative universe. It is through
writing that you discover your own islands. Based on a course
designed by acclaimed writing facilitator Anne Schuster, To the
Islands is a practical and invaluable sourcebook for individuals,
for writing groups and for facilitators of creative learning
processes.
The buzz word in publishing houses and at writer's conferences
these days is platform. As in, What is the author' s platform?
With more than 175,000 new titles published each year, publishers
want to sign authors who are capable of helping to sell their book.
The platform may be that the author is a widely syndicated
columnist, is the internationally acclaimed expert in his field, or
is a highly sought-after motivational speaker. Or perhaps the
author is a New York City television news anchor. These types of
platforms make a publisher's mouth water. But what about authors
who aren t widely known or acclaimed? How does the ordinary guy
build a credible platform? The answer: the Internet. Today you can
build an international platform right from your kitchen table even
if your kitchen table is in Manhattan . . . Kansas.
FOREWORD BY FRASER HESTON In celebration of the fiftieth
anniversary of Planet of the Apes, the classic science-fiction film
from 1968, The Making of Planet of the Apes tells the film and
offers exclusive, never-before-seen photographs and concept art.
Based on Pierre Boulle's novel La Planete de singes, the original
Planet of the Apes was one of the most celebrated films of the
1960s and beyond. Starring Hollywood icons Charlton Heston and
Roddy McDowall, the movie struck a chord with the world and sparked
a franchise that included eight sequels, two television series, and
a long-running comic book. Now, five decades after its theatrical
release, New York Times bestselling author J. W. Rinzler tells the
thrilling story of this legendary Hollywood production-a film even
Boulle thought would be impossible to make. With a foreword by
Fraser Heston, Charlton Heston's son, The Making of Planet of the
Apes is an entertaining, informative experience that will transport
readers back to the strange alternate Earth ruled by apes, and
bring to life memorable characters such as Cornelius, Dr. Zira, Dr.
Zaius, and Taylor, the human astronaut whose time-traveling sparks
an incredible adventure. Meticulously researched and designed to
capture the look and atmosphere of the film, The Making of Planet
of the Apes is also packed with a wealth of concept paintings,
storyboards, and never-before-seen imagery-including rare journal
pages and sketches from Charlton Heston's private collection-as
well as color and black-and-white unit photography, posters, and
more unique ephemera. Comprehensive in scope, The Making of Planet
of the Apes is the definitive look at the original blockbuster
film, a must-have for fans, film buffs, and collectors alike.
No other description available.
More than 45 agent, editor, and author-written chapters--called
workshops in the book--provide instruction on the writing craft and
the business of getting published.
To write a million dollar screenplay you need determination,
talent, and an insider's knowledge about what Hollywood wants. With
in-depth interviews and revealing insights, this look behind the
scenes is comprehensive, inspiring readers with advice, secrets,
and stories from screenwriters like: Akiva Goldsman - "A Beautiful
Mind"; David Hayter - "X-Men," and Ed Solomon - "Men in Black."
A play by William Shakespeare in 16 point type.
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