It has become commonplace these days to speak of unpacking
texts. "Voice and Vision" is a book about packing that prose in the
first place. While history is scholarship, it is also art that is,
literature. And while it has no need to emulate fiction, slump into
memoir, or become self-referential text, its composition does need
to be conscious and informed.
"Voice and Vision" is for those who wish to understand the ways
in which literary considerations can enhance nonfiction writing. At
issue is not whether writing is scholarly or popular, narrative or
analytical, but whether it is good. Fiction has guidebooks galore;
journalism has shelves stocked with manuals; certain hybrids such
as creative nonfiction and the new journalism have evolved
standards, esthetics, and justifications for how to transfer the
dominant modes of fiction to topics in nonfiction. But history and
other serious or scholarly nonfiction have nothing comparable.
Now this curious omission is addressed by Stephen Pyne as he
analyzes and teaches the craft that undergirds whole realms of
nonfiction and book-based academic disciplines. With eminent good
sense concerning the unique problems posed by research-based
writing and with a wealth of examples from accomplished writers,
Pyne, an experienced and skilled writer himself, explores the many
ways to understand what makes good nonfiction, and explains how to
achieve it. His counsel and guidance will be invaluable to experts
as well as novices in the art of writing serious and scholarly
nonfiction.
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