02946cam a2200313 i 4500 616239785 TxAuBib 20230313120000.0 220627s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022018499 9781595349767 PAP 19.95 1595349766 PAP 19.95 TxAuBib rda Turchi, Peter, 1960-, author Archimedes's lever. Essays Selections. (Don't) stop me if you've heard this before [BOOK] : and other essays on writing fiction / Peter Turchi. San Antonio, Texas : Trinity University Press, [2023] 295 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-293). Power Plays: Toward More Dynamic Scenes -- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Information Dump: The Strategic Release of Information -- I See What You're Saying: Images and Motifs -- The Roast Beef Is the Story: Digression, Misdirection, and Asides-- Don't Stand So Close to Me: Narrative Distance in First-Person Fiction -- Don't Stand So Close to Her, or Him, or Them, Either: Narrative Distance in Third Person Fiction -- (Don't) Stop Me If You've Heard This Before: Storytelling Characters -- Archimedes's Lever: Setting a Narrative World in Motion -- Appendixes -- A. Out of the Workshop, into the Laboratory -- B. Annotations, or, Reading like a Writer -- C. Resources for Fiction Writers. In (Don’t) Stop Me If You’ve Heard This Before, Peter Turchi combines personal narrative and close reading of a wide range of stories and novels to reveal how writers create the fiction that matters to us. Building on his much-loved Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer, Turchi leads readers and writers to an understanding of how the intricate mechanics of storytelling—including shifts in characters’ authority, the subtle manipulation of images, careful attention to point of view, the strategic release of information, and even digressing from the (apparent) story—can create powerful effects. Using examples from Dickens, Chekhov, and Salinger, and Twain to more contemporary writers including Toni Morrison, Alice Munro, E. L. Doctorow, Jenny Erpenbeck, Adam Johnson, Mohsin Hamid, Jai Chakrabarti, Yoko Ogawa, Richard Powers, Deborah Eisenberg, Olga Tokarczuk, Rachel Cusk, and Colson Whitehead, Turchi offers illuminating insights into the inner workings of fiction as well as practical advice for writers looking to explore their craft from a fresh angle beyond the fundamentals of character and setting, plot, and scene. Provided by publisher. 20230313. Fiction Authorship. Fiction Technique. Essays.