The Muse Upon My Shoulder

Author : Sylvia Skaggs McTague
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0838639968

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The Muse Upon My Shoulder by Sylvia Skaggs McTague Pdf

In The Muse upon My Shoulder an exceptionally diverse group of writers (including Evan S. Connell, Anthony Piccione, David Trinidad, William Stafford, Jean Thompson, Vance Bourjaily, E. L. Doctorow, Stanley Elkin, Jay McInerney, Beth Henley, David Hwang, Bud Schulberg, and Mary Gordon) discuss the creative process. They entertain self-revealing questions about their status as writers, their inspiration to write, and their relationship to an audience. The conversational form of the interview allows for candid answers that readers rarely hear to questions that seldom are answered. The final chapter lets readers participate in the conflicts that surround the production of a good interview. Sylvia Skaggs McTague is a lecturer at Fairleigh Dickinson University.

Author : Jackson R. Bryer,Mary C. Hartig
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496844316

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Conversations with Beth Henley by Jackson R. Bryer,Mary C. Hartig Pdf

With roots in the American South, Beth Henley (b. 1952) has for four decades been a working playwright and screenwriter. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1981 at the age of twenty-eight, Henley so far has written twenty-five produced plays that are always original, usually darkly comic, and often experimental. In these interviews, Henley speaks of the plays, from her early crowd-pleasers, Crimes of the Heart and The Miss Firecracker Contest, to her more experimental plays, including The Debutante Ball and Control Freaks, to her brilliant and time-bending play, The Jacksonian. Henley is a master at writing about the duality of human experience—the beautiful and the grotesque, the cruel and the loving. This duality provokes in Henley both amazement and compassion. She discusses here not only her admiration for Chekhov and other influences, but also her process of bringing a play from notebooks of images and bits of dialogues through rumination, writing, and rewriting to rehearsals and previews. The interviews range from 1981, just before she won the Pulitzer Prize, to 2020 and cover nearly forty years of a creative life, which, as Henley remarks in the most recent interview, is “such a life worth living: to be in tune with the creative process.”

Author : Robert J. Andreach
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Drama
ISBN : 157003639X

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Understanding Beth Henley by Robert J. Andreach Pdf

Beth Henley remains best known for 'Crimes of the Heart', a play that won the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award and later was made into a major motion picture. This introduction to the Mississippi-born playwright and her body of work presents Henley's plays as a unified whole.

Author : Steve Paul
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780826274649

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Literary Alchemist by Steve Paul Pdf

Winner, 2022 Society of Midland Authors award for Biography/Memoir Evan S. Connell (1924–2013) emerged from the American Midwest determined to become a writer. He eventually made his mark with attention-getting fiction and deep explorations into history. His linked novels Mrs. Bridge (1959) and Mr. Bridge (1969) paint a devastating portrait of the lives of a prosperous suburban family not unlike his own that, more than a half century later, continue to haunt readers with their minimalist elegance and muted satire. As an essayist and historian, Connell produced a wide range of work, including a sumptuous body of travel writing, a bestselling epic account of Custer at the Little Bighorn, and a singular series of meditations on history and the human tragedy. This first portrait and appraisal of an under-recognized American writer is based on personal accounts by friends, relatives, writers, and others who knew him; extensive correspondence in library archives; and insightful literary and cultural analysis of Connell’s work and its context. It also illuminates aspects of American publishing, Hollywood, male anxieties, and the power of place.

Author : George Gordon Byron Baron Byron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 992 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101066385111

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The Works of Lord Byron ; in Verse and Prose by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron Pdf

Author : George Gordon Byron Baron Byron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1098 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1833
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN38G8

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The Works of Lord Byron, in Verse and Prose, Including His Letters, Journals, Etc by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron Pdf

Author : George Gordon Byron Baron Byron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1829
Category : Electronic
ISBN : SRLF:AX0002255966

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The Poetic Works Including His Don Juan, All His Minor Poems, and the Suppressed Pieces of Cain, and the Vision of Judgment, All Complete by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron Pdf

Author : George Gordon Byron Baron Byron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017802325

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The Illustrated Byron. With Upwards of Two Hundred Engravings from Original Drawings by Kenny Meadows, Birket Foster, Hablot K. Browne, Gustave Janet, and Edward Morin by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron Pdf

Author : George Noe͏̈l Gordon Byron (Baron Byron)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Electronic
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000076942

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The Illustrated Byron by George Noe͏̈l Gordon Byron (Baron Byron) Pdf

Author : George Gordon Byron Baron Byron,Thomas Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 954 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112041193548

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The Poetical Works of Lord Byron by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron,Thomas Moore Pdf

Author : George Gordon Byron Baron Byron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 882 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044086784253

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Poetical Works by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron Pdf

Author : George Gordon Byron Baron Byron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 998 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : English literature
ISBN : PRNC:32101068582152

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The Works of Lord Byron by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron Pdf

Author : George Gordon Byron Baron Byron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1002 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1835
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HWNRKF

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Works by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron Pdf

Author : Linda De Roche
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1563 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781440853593

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Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context [4 volumes] by Linda De Roche Pdf

This four-volume reference work surveys American literature from the early 20th century to the present day, featuring a diverse range of American works and authors and an expansive selection of primary source materials. Bringing useful and engaging material into the classroom, this four-volume set covers more than a century of American literary history—from 1900 to the present. Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context profiles authors and their works and provides overviews of literary movements and genres through which readers will understand the historical, cultural, and political contexts that have shaped American writing. Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context provides wide coverage of authors, works, genres, and movements that are emblematic of the diversity of modern America. Not only are major literary movements represented, such as the Beats, but this work also highlights the emergence and development of modern Native American literature, African American literature, and other representative groups that showcase the diversity of American letters. A rich selection of primary documents and background material provides indispensable information for student research.

Author : George Gordon Byron Baron Byron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1837
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3579692

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The Works of Lord Byron Complete in One Volume by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron Pdf