Barrie Jean Borich Tuesday, June 17, 2014 Craft Essay TriQuarterly is proud to present the five ... the “I” is a pronoun with a concrete referent, the living body of the author, and not just a narrative ... and ruminated, ran, even streaked into five autobiographical craft essays that focus on everything ...
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a story is a way to distance oneself from it, at worst a form of self-deception, at best a way to pardon ... the self. "80 It may be that all pardon tales can do is to provide some assurance for those ... spares life. Perhaps this is why the impulse to narrate flourishes in the face of the death penalty. The ...
images nestled within an artfully constructed soundscape. The text and images of Hall’s essay function as ... quiet dissonance that pulls us through the narration. Blair Braverman’s "Two Poems About X, 2009 ... these videos reminds us what the essay can accomplish within this medium—a text made more complex by its ...
craft essays adapted for TriQuarterly Online from the panel “ The Persona in Personal Narrative ... I think it goes further. I do not remember ever having concocted this made-up self; I can’t recall the ... Phillip Lopate Monday, April 2, 2012 Craft Essay This is the first in a series of three nonfiction ...
would connect all those stand-alone essays into a coherent narrative. So, after about twelve months of ... again, I began to think about other ways of shaping this narrative. * If I were to title this next ... narrative’s shape. “It’ll shut down your thinking,” he said, “and inhibit the unbidden associations and ...
of the detective story. In his 1932 essay entitled "Narrative Art and Magic," ... "magic":...it may rightly be inferred that the main problem of the novel is that of causation. One kind of ... aesthetic of narration, as Ronald Christ has so brilliantly demonstrated in his full-length study of ...
personal narratives that Sanders talks about, the ones that begin in “not knowing,” or uncertainty—the kind ... isn't yet about what it wants to be about. Note: what it wants, not what I want. —Patricia Hampl ... structure direct the narrative. “It’ll shut down your thinking,” he said. Makes sense, right? Syd was being ...
Can we talk about “Not Something That’s Gone”? It’s like a mini-novella of creative nonfiction, yet ... balance who’s steering the narrative? Has that changed appreciably in any of the essays from what you ... initially planned and what it ended up being? Kristine Langley Mahler: I think there’s almost no way for me ...
lay where it fell. Then I could think about the visual component of the film as not necessarily wedded ... narrative? To think about lack of narrative, we must understand what narrative is. Narrative is what one ... existing narratives. The desired goal’s being “ungrasped” is not what disables it—to the contrary, it is ...
cloudy; it allows us more than enough peeks at beauty, mystery, playfulness, and well-constructed ... goes about trying to find her killer. This story deservedly won a place in Best American Mystery ... them fully. As Bell writes of the main character in “His Last Great Gift,” it is “as if his ears are ...