Write Like the Masters: Emulating the Best of Hemingway, Faulkner, Salinger, and Others
Inspirational and informative, "Write Like the Masters" is the first book-length explanation of the rhetorical technique of imitation for the modern writer. Comprised of practical, inspirational, easy-to-apply advice, this helpful guide analyses the writing styles of twenty-one great novelists, explaining how readers can imitate these authors and, in the process, learn advanced writing secrets to fire up their own work.
The 95 lessons in this book provide a wealth of information for teaching leads, character, endings, stronger verbs, and much more. This new edition reestablishes Craft Lessons as the crucial desert island book for harried writing teachers everywhere.
Motivation makes all the difference. And what's more motivating than the expectation of success? The instructions are clear and to the point, so students can quickly get down to writing practice. Helpful prompts pack the lesson pages including illustrations, examples, and sample responses. - Incremental teaching method - Basic grammar review pages interspersed with regular lesson pages - Easy-to-use answer keys - "Real world" themes give relevance to academic instruction - A special, culminating project at the end of each workbook - Airy page design teams with low reading level to encourage your struggling students
In his new book, the eminent philosopher Andrew Benjamin turns his attention to architecture, design, sculpture, painting and writing. Drawing predominantly on a European tradition of modern philosophical criticism running from the German Romantics through Walter Benjamin and beyond, he offers a sequence of strong meditations on a diverse ensemble of works and themes: on the library and the house, on architectural theory, on Rachel Whiteread, Peter Eisenman, Anselm Kiefer, Peter Nielson, David Hawley, Terri Bird, Elizabeth Presa and others. In Benjamin's hands, criticism is bound up with judgment
