A Passion For Narrative

Author : Jack Hodgins
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780771041983

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A Passion for Narrative by Jack Hodgins Pdf

This book is not intended to persuade you to take up writing novels or short stories – “It’s going to be a lot of work,” Jack Hodgins warns. Nor will it tell you how to market your stories. But it will take you through the problems facing any fiction writer and show you how some of the best writers in English have solved them. The chapters are clear and comprehensive: Finding Your Own Stories; One Good Sentence After Another – on the skills of writing well; Setting; Character – how to make your characters come alive; Plot; Structure – “The Architecture of Story”; Point of View and Voice; Metaphors, Symbols and Allusions; Revising – an all-important chapter that also deals with the impact of writing on a computer; The Story of a Story – where Jack Hodgins talks of his own experience with one of his most famous stories; and the final chapter, And Now What? – Creating Your Own Workshop, which builds on the fact that every chapter in the book contains writing exercises to help you work away at home at “the mysterious business of writing fiction.” As an award-winning novelist and short-story writer Jack Hodgins is uniquely qualified to preach what he practises. As a trained teacher, he has been giving creative lessons for thirty years, at high schools and universities and to writers’ summer schools. In recent years his creative writing courses at the University of Victoria have become discreetly famous. Now, anyone who buys this book can share in the experience of learning fiction-writing from a master. With its scores of examples of first-class writing this lively, truly fascinating book will almost certainly make you be atter writer; it is guaranteed to make you a better reader.

Author : Jack Hodgins
Publisher : St Martins Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0312110421

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A Passion for Narrative by Jack Hodgins Pdf

Covers setting, character building, plot, narration, metaphors, and revision, and includes exercises designed to improve writing skills

Author : Byung-Chul Han
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262537506

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Good Entertainment by Byung-Chul Han Pdf

A philosopher considers entertainment, in all its totalizing variety—infotainment, edutainment, servotainment—and traces the notion through Kant, Zen Buddhism, Heidegger, Kafka, and Rauschenberg. In Good Entertainment, Byung-Chul Han examines the notion of entertainment—its contemporary ubiquity, and its philosophical genealogy. Entertainment today, in all its totalizing variety, has an apparently infinite capacity for incorporation: infotainment, edutainment, servotainment, confrontainment. Entertainment is held up as a new paradigm, even a new credo for being—and yet, in the West, it has had inescapably negative connotations. Han traces Western ideas of entertainment, considering, among other things, the scandal that arose from the first performance of Bach's Saint Matthew's Passion (deemed too beautiful, not serious enough); Kant's idea of morality as duty and the entertainment value of moralistic literature; Heidegger's idea of the thinker as a man of pain; Kafka's hunger artist and the art of negativity, which takes pleasure in annihilation; and Robert Rauschenberg's refusal of the transcendent. The history of the West, Han tells us, is a passion narrative, and passion appears as a killjoy. Achievement is the new formula for passion, and play is subordinated to production, gamified. And yet, he argues, at their core, passion and entertainment are not entirely different. The pure meaninglessness of entertainment is adjacent to the pure meaning of passion. The fool's smile resembles the pain-racked visage of Homo doloris. In Good Entertainment, Han explores this paradox.

Author : Brian Rabey
Publisher : Soundcheck Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780957144248

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A Passion Play by Brian Rabey Pdf

An intimate, yet thorough, look at one of Britain’s biggest ever bands

Author : Joel Schwartzberg
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781523094127

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Get to the Point! by Joel Schwartzberg Pdf

Whether you want to improve your impact in speeches, staff meetings, pitches, emails, PowerPoint presentations, or any other communication setting, this book provides a novel approach that teaches you how to go from simply sharing a thought to making a difference. --

Author : Walter Wangerin, Jr.,Walter Wangerin
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0310755301

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Reliving the Passion by Walter Wangerin, Jr.,Walter Wangerin Pdf

These imaginary reenactments follow the story of the death and resurrection of Jesus from the time the chief priests plotted to kill Him to His glorious resurrection from the dead, allowing readers to re-experience the Passion--or perhaps see it fully for the first time.

Author : Sylvia Day
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780758290632

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A Passion for Him by Sylvia Day Pdf

In this Georgian-era romance by the #1 bestselling author of the Crossfire Series, a woman meant for another man succumbs to temptation. STRANGER He wears a mask . . . and he is following her. Staring at her like no other man since Colin. But Colin is dead and Amelia believes she will never again shiver with pleasure, never again sigh his name. LOVER Until her masked pursuer lures her into a moonlit garden and offers a single, reckless kiss. Now she is obsessed with discovering his identity. Perfectly attuned to his every desire, his every thought, she will not stop until she knows his every secret. Praise for A Passion for Him “Terrific. Readers will have a passion for Sylvia Day’s fine historicals.” —Midwest Book Review “Brilliantly blends danger and desire into an intrigue-rich, lushly sensual love story.” —Booklist

Author : Stephen J. Binz
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0814617719

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The Passion and Resurrection Narratives of Jesus by Stephen J. Binz Pdf

Explains each scene of the narratives from all four Gospels and gives reasons for the differences in the four accounts. Studied together with the biblical text, this commentary will enrich the reader's understanding of the heart of the Christian faith.

Author : John Dominic Crossan
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725221819

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The Cross that Spoke by John Dominic Crossan Pdf

In this revolutionary work, John Dominic Crossan reveals that the Passion and Resurrection Narratives in the four canonical Gospels are radical revisions of an earlier Gospel account. He argues boldly that the apocryphal Gospel of Peter, discovered in the grave of a Christian monk in Egypt circa 1886, contains the earliest version of the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus. He describes how the authors of the four Gospels revised the early account of how their revision predominated as Roman authority grew. Lacking in the revision, he suggests, is the very heart of the earlier Passion: its depiction of Jesus' death as the consummation of Israel's pain and the resurrection as the vindication of Israel's faith.

Author : Francine Prose
Publisher : Union Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781908526144

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Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose Pdf

DIV In her entertaining and edifying New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Francine Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and tricks of the masters to discover why their work has endured. Written with passion, humour and wisdom, Reading Like a Writer will inspire readers to return to literature with a fresh eye and an eager heart – to take pleasure in the long and magnificent sentences of Philip Roth and the breathtaking paragraphs of Isaac Babel; to look to John le Carré for a lesson in how to advance plot through dialogue and to Flannery O’Connor for the cunning use of the telling detail; to be inspired by Emily Brontë’s structural nuance and Charles Dickens’s deceptively simple narrative techniques. Most importantly, Prose cautions readers to slow down and pay attention to words, the raw material out of which all literature is crafted, and reminds us that good writing comes out of good reading. /div

Author : Annie Ernaux
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Man-woman relationships
ISBN : IND:30000038746768

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Passion Perfect by Annie Ernaux Pdf

Author : Vincent Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004-12-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0521616921

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The Passion Narrative of St Luke by Vincent Taylor Pdf

The book defends and develops the argument for a non-Markan basis for the Gospel of Luke.

Author : Andy Mill
Publisher : Wild River Press
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fishing
ISBN : 0984227121

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A Passion for Tarpon by Andy Mill Pdf

Author : Donald Maass
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781599634005

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Writing 21st Century Fiction by Donald Maass Pdf

Capture the minds, hearts, and imaginations of 21st century readers! Whether you're a commercial storyteller or a literary novelist, whether your goal is to write a best-selling novel or captivate readers with a satisfying, beautifully written story, the key to success is the same: high-impact fiction. Writing 21st Century Fiction will help you write a novel for today's readers and market, filled with rich characters, compelling plots, and resonant themes. Author and literary agent Donald Maass shows you how to: • Create fiction that transcends genre, conjures characters who look and feel more "real" than real people, and shows readers the work around them in new ways. • Infuse every page with an electric current of emotional appeal and micro-tension. • Harness the power of parallels, symbols, metaphors, and more to illuminate your novel in a lasting way. • Develop a personalized method of writing that works for you. With an arsenal of thought-provoking prompts and questions, plus plenty of examples from best-selling titles, Writing 21st Century Fiction will strip away your preconceived notions about writing in today's world and give you the essential tools you need to create fiction that will leave both readers and critics in awe.

Author : David M. Allen
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781978715615

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The Use of the Jewish Scriptures in the Johannine Passion Narrative by David M. Allen Pdf

How do Israel’s Scriptures inform the account of Jesus’s cruciform death in the Gospel of John? What does it mean for John’s portrayal of Jesus’s death to be “according to the Scriptures”? The Use of the Jewish Scriptures in the Johannine Passion Narrative: That the Scripture May Be Perfected argues that they are the focal element of the Johannine portrayal, and without them, John’s Passion Narrative simply makes no sense. Whether through the evangelist’s appeal to the fulfilment of Scripture (with such fulfilment accompanying the very moment of Jesus’s death) or whether through allusions to the narratives of Creation or Passover, Israel’s Scriptures provide the Passion Narrative’s veritable heartbeat. This book also considers the impact of John’s scriptural usage on the very concept of Scripture itself, contending that Scripture is brought to perfection by Jesus’s actions and to a new standing or status in this regard. David M. Allen examines how the use of Scripture in the Passion account impacts the Fourth Gospel’s own self-understanding, arguing that its capacity to pronounce on Scripture’s fulfilment attests to the Gospel’s own self-avowed, scriptural credentials.