The Book of Dialogue: How to Write Effective Conversation in Fiction, Screenplays, Drama, and Poetry

by Lewis Turco

Overview

The Book of Dialogue is an invaluable resource for writers and students of narrative seeking to master the art of effective dialogue.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826361905
Publisher:	University of New Mexico Press
Publication date:	09/01/2020
Pages:	206
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Lewis Turco is an emeritus professor and the founding director of the Program in Writing Arts at SUNY-Oswego and the Cleveland State University Poetry Center. An award-winning author, Turco has published twenty-one collections of poetry and nonfiction, including The Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics, Fifth Edition, and The Book of Literary Terms: The Genre of Fiction, Drama, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism, and Scholarship, Second Edition.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter One. Definitions
Savants
Bordello
Chapter Two. Speech in Narration
An Old-Fashioned Kind of Guy
One Sunday Morning
The Man in the Booth
Pleasant Dell
Chapter Three. Diction
Scot on the Rocks
Chapter Four. Types of Speech
Pocoangelini 7
Barrow Yard
Shipmates
Chapter Five. Genre Dialogue
Murgatroyd Tries Again
The Museum of Ordinary People

Index