Shining a spotlight on everyday readers of the 21st century, Beth Driscoll explores how contemporary readers of Anglophone fiction interact with the book industry, digital environments, and each other.
The contributions in this book discuss letter-writing from 1400 to 1800, and the material studied ranges from the late medieval Paston Letters and the correspondence between Sweden and the German Hanse to Early Modern English family letters and correspondence in natural history between England and North America in the eighteenth century.
Offering a comparative analysis of "e;community-literacy studies,"e; Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Local Publics traces common values in diverse accounts of "e;ordinary people going public.
Southern Discomfort tells the story of Masey Bumgarner, recently widowed, who returns from her summer vacation to discover that her town, Pineville, North Carolina, has decided to pave a four-lane highway through her front yard .
Where Drowned Things Live describes the struggles of an untenured professor, Kristin Ginelli, as she tries to counsel a young woman student at her university and get her to reveal who is abusing her.
Jane Mallison is the former head of the English department at New York's prestigious Trinity SchoolMore than five million Americans belong to a book club and members are always looking for new ideasConsumers spend more than a billion dollars on books each yearFeatures Book Smart Recommended Reading sidebars that lead readers to similar books and authors
Though we all think we know what good writing is when we see it, it's difficult to define it precisely; and without a satisfactory definition, it becomes problematical to assess as well as to teach.
Short-Form Creative Writing: A Writer's Guide and Anthology is a complete introduction to the art and craft of extremely compressed works of imaginative literature.
