Exhilarating Prose

COGNITIONS, CONTEMPLATIONS, INSIGHTS, INTROSPECTIONS, LUCUBRATIONS, MEDITATIONS, MUSINGS, PROGNOSTICATIONS, REFLECTIONS, REVERIES & RUMINATIONS ON THE PROCESS OF WRITING

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Cordelia Strube (Auteur), Barry Healey (Auteur)

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This smartly illustrated literary miscellanea will pique the interest of English prose enthusiasts anywhere. From “Dead Language – the Speaks” (e.g. ad-speak, etc.) to “Re-writing – Again?” and “Rules – Must We Obey?” authors Healey and Strube scrutinize prose in its various forms to reflect on what constitutes distinctive writing, and why. Included are samples of timeless fiction, astute quotes from celebrated authors, and ruminations on the difficulties of conveying, in prose, the mysteries of the human mind. Those interested in “words in their best order” (Coleridge) will find themselves (dare we say) exhilarated..

Table des matières

Table des matières
Exhilarating Prose	1
Contents	11
Where Does Good Prose Come From?	13
1. Dead Language – The Speaks	17
2. Forms of Prose	27
The Spellbinding Short Story	32
The Absorbing Memoir	34
The Forceful Screenplay	35
3. The Elements of Prose	43
Theme – Have You Got One?	43
Narrative = Incidence + Character	50
Voice – Who’s Telling the Story?	58
Setting – Where’s The Action?	66
Characters – Who Are They?	76
Dialogue – Are You Talking to Me?	85
Syntax – Which Word Where	98
4. Openings – Grab Them by the Gotchees	105
Grabbing Them by the Gotchees	110
5. Endings – the Sense of One	111
6. Rewriting – Again?	115
Rewriting Considerations:	119
7. Of What to Be Continually Aware	121
8. Rules – Must We Obey?	127
9. The Creative Process – What Is It?	135
E.L. Doctorow	141
Isaac Asimov	141
Ray Bradbury	142
Robert Frost	142
Anthony Burgess	142
Joan Didion	143
Graham Greene	143
Stephen King	144
John Cheever	144
William Kennedy	145
Dennis Potter	145
David Mercer	146
10. The Writer’s Mission	147
11. Glossary	151
12. The Stillness of Reading	157
Recommended short prose	171
Acknowledgements	175
References	180
MORE FROM BARAKA BOOKS	183