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Studying the Novel

Studying

Jeremy Hawthorn Bloomsbury USA

How do literary critics distinguish between story and plot, between a symbol and an image, or between tone and mood? How do we define realism, modernism, and postmodernism? What do narrative theorists mean by frequency and distance? Studying the Novel provides answers to these questions and many others in a way that is readable and entertaining without being simplistic. This is the revised and updated sixth edition of Jeremy Hawthorn’s standard introduction to the novel.

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Things That Make Us (Sic)

The Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar Takes on Madison Avenue, Hollywood, the White House, and the World

Martha Brockenbrough St. Martin's Press

This book is for people who experience heartbreak over love notes with subject-verb disagreements...for anyone who’s ever considered hanging up the phone on...

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Trade Paperback : $16.99 Buy	The Tools of Screenwriting A Writer's Guide to the Craft and Elements of a Screenplay David Howard and Edward Mabley; Introduction by Frank Daniel St. Martin's Griffin In The Tools of Screenwriting, David Howard and Edward Mabley illuminate the essential elements of cinematic storytelling, and reveal the central principles...

Trade Paperback : $25.00 Buy	Upgrade Your English Essay Tony Myers Bloomsbury USA Designed for undergraduate English majors or any undergraduate working on an English essay, this book offers a carefully structured approach to improving essay...

Trade Paperback : $16.99 Buy	When Good People Write Bad Sentences 12 Steps to Better Writing Habits Robert W. Harris St. Martin's Griffin At last, help for writers who can admit they have a problem. Do you get a lift by dangling a participle? Has your punctuation ever caused difficulties at...

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Will Write for Shoes

How to Write a Chick Lit Novel

Cathy Yardley St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books

One of the hottest markets for new writers today, the women’s fiction genre called Chick Lit is attracting new authors daily. In Will Write for Shoes, veteran...

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Trade Paperback : $21.00 Buy	The Woman Who Spilled Words All Over Herself Writing and Living the Zona Rosa Way Rosemary Daniell Faber and Faber, Inc. For more than fifteen years, Rosemary Daniell has led Zona Rosa, a creative writing workshop for people of all ages and all walks of life. In this dual memoir...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	A Writer's Workbook Daily Exercises for the Writing Life Caroline Sharp; Foreword by Elizabeth Gilbert St. Martin's Griffin "Opened-hearted, ardent, and encouraging. A must-have book for students and teachers alike."—Elise Paschen, Executive Director, Poetry Society of America, and author of Infidelities

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The Writer's Workbook

Edited by Aileen La Tourette, Edmund Cusik and Jenny Newman Bloomsbury USA

Whether you are taking a course in creative writing or making your first solitary steps in fiction, poetry or drama, this is the book you need. The Writer's Workbook provides a concise introduction to the terrain, with directions to the wider world of writing. It offers key points of good practice, warnings about the main pitfalls, and a variety of exercises to hone your skills. Readers will find advice on writing short stories, poetry, novels, plays, song lyrics, TV, radio and film scripts, as well as advice on writing for children, travel writing, writing on the web, and how to get published.

Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	Writers on Writing Collected Essays from The New York Times Introduction by John Darnton Times Books Today's most celebrated writers—Nobel Laureates, Pulitzer Prize winners, bestselling authors, and beloved voices—explore literature and the literary life in an inspirational, reflective, and diverse collection of essays.

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	Writers on Writing, Volume II More Collected Essays from The New York Times The New York Times; Introduction by Jane Smiley Times Books "Glimpses into writers and the circumstances that shape them . . . Valuable gleanings."-Kirkus Reviews In a second volume of original essays drawn from...

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Writing Fiction

The Practical Guide from New York's Acclaimed Creative Writing School

Gotham Writers' Workshop Faculty; Edited by Alexander Steele Bloomsbury USA

"Writing Fiction is unlike any so-called 'creative writing' text I've encountered. It deals with any question a fictioneer at any level of development might have, but in a refreshing, nuts-and-bolts manner. This book has a vividness that somehow captures the excitement and fellowship in good writers' workshops. I've clearly found a new book to use in my own writing classes. This is a fine guide."—Chuck Kinder, Writing Program Director, University of Pittsburgh

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Writing History

Theory and Practice

Edited by Heiko Feldner, Kevin Passmore and Stefan Berger Bloomsbury USA

Writing History 2nd edition provides students and teachers with a comprehensive overview of the emergence and development of history as a discipline and of the major theoretical developments that have informed historical writing. Instead of focusing on theory, the book uses key historical texts to explain key concepts and demonstrate the ways they have informed practical work. This new edition is fully revised, including new chapters on history and the social sciences, history and anthropology and the Annales and history. It is an invaluable introduction to the central debates that have shaped History.

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Writing Movies

The Practical Guide to Creating Stellar Screenplays

Gotham Writers' Workshop Bloomsbury USA

"I read most of the new screenwriting books for my job teaching screenwriting and film production courses at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington. Writing Movies is the best book on screenwriting I've read in years. I can tell a good book by the number of pages I dog-ear. There is a fold on nearly every page. Writing Movies is the most refreshing outlook on screenwriting since Syd Field."—Professor Terry Linehan, Film Studies Department, UNCW

Trade Paperback : $17.99 Buy	Writing Treatments That Sell, Second Edition How to Create and Market Your Story Ideas to the Motion Picture and TV Industry Kenneth Atchity and Chi-li Wong Holt Paperbacks A fully revised guide to turning your movie idea into a treatment that can persuade even the most jaded movie producers As Hollywood insiders know, the...

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Writing World War II

A Student's Guide

Sylvie Murray; With commentary by Robert D. Johnston Hill and Wang

An indispensable tool for high-schoolers, undergraduates, or even amateur enthusiasts, Writing World War II teaches the craft of history writing—by example. In...

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Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day

A Guide to Starting, Revising, and Finishing Your Doctoral Thesis

Joan Bolker Holt Paperbacks

"After directing dissertations for decades, I wish I had had Bolker's marvelously helpful book from the beginning . . . Bolker writers with wisdom, humor, and wonderful practicality. Get this book for anyone you know who is contemplating, midway into, or finishing a dissertation; you will be blessed."—Carolyn G. Heilbrun

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Trade Paperback : $21.99 Buy	The Yahoo! Style Guide The Ultimate Sourcebook for Writing, Editing, and Creating Content for the Digital World Chris Barr and the Senior Editors of Yahoo! St. Martin's Griffin WWW may be an acronym for the World Wide Web, but no one could fault you for thinking it stands for wild, wild West. The rapid growth of the Web has meant...