TY  - BOOK
AU  - Elllis,Jay
AU  - Ellis,Jay
TI  - American Creative Nonfiction
T2  - Critical Insights
SN  - 9781619254176
AV  - PS 366 .C74 A44 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Ipswich, Massachusetts, Amenia, NY
PB  - Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc., Grey House Publishing
KW  - Creative nonfiction, American
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Authors, American
KW  - Biography
KW  - Narration (Rhetoric)
KW  - History
N1  - Edition statement supplied by publisher; Includes bibliographical references and index; About this volume / Jay Ellis -- On American creative nonfiction / Jay Ellis -- American creative nonfiction : background and history / Kelly Clasen -- Critical reception of "a special kind of fiction" / Ross Griffin -- The lyric essay as non-nonfiction / Jay Ellis -- "Loops and spins" : autobiography, autofiction, and Tim O'Brien's serial selves / David Bahr -- Benjamin Franklin's middle way and the argumentative nature of autobiography / Peter Kratzke -- Gender and genre in Susan Fenimore Cooper's nature writing / Kelly Clasen -- "A canticle of my reaction" : socio-cultural criticism in Claude McKay's A long way from home / Christopher Allen Varlack -- "I'm fighting because you're down here" : small stories and big histories in Shelby Foote's The Civil War / Christopher Walsh -- Medical humanities and illness narratives / G. Thomas Couser -- The grand memoir : Temple Grandin and autism / Katherine Lashley -- Stories of the self in cinema : autobiography and the documentary image / Shira Segal -- One life transformed : Natalie Goldberg's writing, art, and religion / Beth Walker -- David Foster Wallace and the ethical potential of creative nonfiction / Brandon Benevento -- Choreographing time : Art Spiegelman's present, past(s) and the craft of creative nonfiction comics / David Bahr
N2  - This collection of critical essays on the American creative nonficition features an overview of the genre and critical readings of selected works and authors
ER  -