How We Write: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blank Page
- Edited by Suzanne Conklin Akbari
Published on September 11, 2015 by punctum books
- Pages
- 182 pages
- Languages
- English
- Dimensions
- 5⤫8 in.
- ISBN (Paperback)
- ISBN: 978-0-692-51933-2 (Paperback)
- BISAC subject codes
- BISAC: LAN005010
- Thema subject codes
- THEMA: CFC, DSB, JNM
The contributors range from graduate students and recent PhDs to senior scholars working in the fields of medieval studies, art history, English literature, poetics, early modern studies, musicology, and geography. All are engaged in academic writing, but some of the contributors also publish in other genres, includes poetry and fiction. Several contributors maintain a very active online presence, including blogs and websites; all are committed to strengthening the bonds of community, both in person and online, which helps to explain the effervescent sense of collegiality that pervades the volume, creating linkages across essays and extending outward into the wide world of writers and readers.
Contents
Frontmatter (i–xii)
Introduction: Written Chatter and the Writer's Voice (xiii–xxiii)
Suzanne Conklin Akbari
About the Images (xxiv–xxv)
Suzanne Conklin Akbari
Who We Are (xxvi–xxxi)
Suzanne Conklin Akbari
Wilderness Group Tour (1–7)
Michael Collins
How I Write (I) (8–17)
Suzanne Conklin Akbari
How I Write (II) (18–22)
Alexandra Gillespie
The Community You Have, The Community You Need: On Accountability Groups (24–32)
Alice Hutton Sharp
This Would Be Better If I Had A Co-Author (34–43)
Asa Simon Mittman
On the Necessity of Ignoring Those Who Offer Themselves as Examples (44–56)
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
How I Write (III) (58–71)
Maura Nolan
Errant Practices (72–80)
Richard H. Godden
Cushion, Kernel, Craft (82–92)
Bruce Holsinger
Writing By Accumulation (94–104)
Stuart Elden
Travelling Through Words (106–116)
Derek Gregory
Wet Work: Writing as Encounter (118–128)
Steve Mentz
Writing (Life): Ten Lessons (130–146)
Daniel T. Kline
Biographies
Suzanne Conklin Akbari is Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto, but would rather be working on her new project on medieval ideas of periodization, “The Shape of Time,” and/or lying on the beach in North Truro. Her books include Seeing Through the Veil: Optical Theory and Medieval Allegory (2004), Idols in the East: European Representations of Islam and the Orient, 1100-1450 (2009), and three collections of essays; the most recent one is A Sea of Languages: Rethinking the Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History (2013). She is also a co-editor of the *Norton Anthology of World Literature (*3rd ed.), and a master of structured procrastination.
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Genres
- Humanities+University
Keywords
- academic writing
- literary studies
- university studies