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How We Write: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blank Page

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2015
Published by: Punctum Books
summary
The contributors range from graduate students and recent PhDs to senior scholars working in the fields of medieval studies, art history, English literature, poetics, early modern studies, musicology, and geography. All are engaged in academic writing, but some of the contributors also publish in other genres, includes poetry and fiction. Several contributors maintain a very active online presence, including blogs and websites; all are committed to strengthening the bonds of community, both in person and online, which helps to explain the effervescent sense of collegiality that pervades the volume, creating linkages across essays and extending outward into the wide world of writers and readers.

Table of Contents

Cover

Half-Title Page, Title Page, Copyright, Support the Publisher

Table of Contents

Introduction: Written Chatter and the Writer's Voice

pp. xiii-xxiii

About the Images

pp. xxiv-xxv

Who We Are

pp. xxvi-xxxi

Michael Collins: Wilderness Group Tour

pp. 1-7

Suzanne Conklin Akbari: How I Write

pp. 8-17

Alexandra Gillespie: How I Write

pp. 18-23

Alice Hutton Sharp: The Community You Have, The Community You Need: On Accountability Groups

pp. 24-33

Asa Simon Mittman: This Would Be Better If I Had a Co-Author

pp. 34-43

Jeffrey Jerome Cohen: On the Necessity of Ignoring Those Who Offer Themselves as Examples

pp. 44-57

Maura Nolan: How I Write

pp. 58-71

Richard H. Godden: Errant Practices

pp. 72-81

Bruce Holsinger: Cushion, Kernel, Craft

pp. 82-93

Stuart Elden: Writing by Accumulation

pp. 94-105

Derek Gregory: Travelling Through Words

pp. 106-117

Steve Mentz: Wet Work: Writing as Encounter

pp. 118-129

Daniel T. Kline: Writing (Life): 10 Lessons

pp. 130-147

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