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Other Shore Essays on Writers and Writing

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ISBN-10: 0520275268

ISBN-13: 9780520275263

Edition: 2012

Authors: Michael Jackson

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In this book, ethnographer and poet Michael Jackson addresses the interplay between modes of writing, modes of understanding, and modes of being in the world. Drawing on literary, anthropological and autobiographical sources, he explores writing as a technics akin to ritual, oral storytelling, magic and meditation, that enables us to reach beyond the limits of everyday life and forge virtual relationships and imagined communities. Although Maurice Blanchot wrote of the impossibility of writing, the passion and paradox of literature lies in its attempt to achieve the impossible--a leap of faith that calls to mind the mystic's dark night of the soul, unrequited love, nostalgic or utopian…    
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Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 11/26/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 218
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English

Kathleen Blake Yancey is the Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English and Director of the Graduate Program in Rhetoric and Composition at Florida State University. Past President of the Council of Writing Program Administrators (WPA) and Past Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), she is President of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). In addition, she co-directs the Inter/National Coalition on Electronic Portfolio Research. She has directed several institutes focused on electronic portfolios and on service learning and reflection, and with her colleagues in English Education, she is working on developing a program in new literacies. Previously,…    

Preface
The Other Shore
The Red Road
Kindred Spirits
Writing under the Influence
A Typewriter Collecting Dust
Writing in Limbo
The Magical Power of Words
Flights of Fancy
Writing Fellowship
There Go I
Love Letters
Writing for Bare Life
Writing So As Not to Die
Chinese Boxes
The Writing on the Wall
Writing out of the Blue
A Storyteller's Story
Writing in the Dark
Writing in the Zone
Writing, Naturally
Writing Workshop
The Books in My Life
Writing Utopia
Writing in Search of Lost Time
Writing about Writers
Writing in Ruins
Writing as a Way of Life
Notes
Acknowledgments