The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again

The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again

by Sven Birkerts
The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again

The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again

by Sven Birkerts

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Overview

The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes will provide a series of sustained examinations of key but sometimes neglected aspects of creative writing by some of contemporary literature's finest practioners.

In The Art of Time in Memoir, critic and memoirist Sven Birkerts examines the human impulse to write about the self. By examining memoirs such as Vladimir Nabokov's Speak, Memory; Virginia Woolf's unfinished A Sketch of the Past; and Mary Karr's The Liars' Club, Birkerts describes the memoirist's essential art of assembling patterns of meaning, stirring to life our own sense of past and present.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781555974893
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Publication date: 12/26/2007
Series: Art of...
Pages: 120
Sales rank: 653,993
Product dimensions: 4.91(w) x 7.01(h) x 0.61(d)

About the Author

Sven Birkerts is the author of Reading Life: Books for the Ages, Readings,
The Gutenberg Elegies, and a memoir, My Sky Blue Trades. He teaches at Harvard University and at the Bennington Writing Seminars and is the editor of AGNI. He lives in Arlington, Massachusetts.

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