Words Overflown by Stars : Creative Writing Instruction and Insight from the Vermont College Mfa Program

English

ISBN: 158297540X

EAN: 9781582975405

Category: Education / Teaching Methods & Materials / Reading/Language Arts & Disciplines / Authorship/Language Arts & Disciplines / Rhetoric/Language Arts & Disciplines / Composition & Creative Writing/Language Arts & Disciplines / Study & Teaching/Education / General/

Publisher: F&W Media, Incorporated

Release Date: 12/19/2011

Synopsis: Your entrance into one of Americas foremost creative writing programs! Featuring instruction from past and present faculty members of the acclaimed M.F.A. in Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts, including Mark Doty, Douglas Glover, Robin Hemley, Richard Jackson, Sydney Lea, Bret Lott, Sue William Silverman, David Wojahn, and Xu Xi, Words Overflown By Starsgives you unprecedented access to a top literary education. This comprehensive resource covers a wide variety of topics, including the creative process, titles, beginnings, voice and style, point of view, novel and short story structure, the role of dreams and fantasy in fiction, the often-blurry borderline between fiction and creative nonfiction, the subgenres of creative nonfiction, music and time in poetry, image patterning, saying the unsayable, multiculturalism, the art of revision, and much more. Both provocative and practical, the essays in Words Overflown by Starsdistill many of the lessons that have made the graduates of Vermont College of Fine Arts so successful.

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Words Overflown by Stars : Creative Writing Instruction and Insight from the Vermont College Mfa Program

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Format: Paperback

Width: 6.0 inches

Length: 9.0 inches

Pages: 480