The Writer on Her Work, Vol. 2: New Essays in New Territory - Hardcover

STERNBURG, Janet

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393028046 ISBN 13: 9780393028041

Publisher: Norton, 1991

Synopsis

In 1980, the ground-breaking anthology The Writer on Her Work appeared, a collection of essays about what it means to be a woman who writes. Now, in a second volume, Janet Sternburg has again commissioned essays from novelists, poets, and nonfiction writers from abroad as well as from the United States.

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From Publishers Weekly:

In this second collection of original essays, following a volume published 10 years ago and edited by Sternburg as well, 20 women writers--poets, novelists and essayists--from five continents address their experience of the creative process and the sources from which it springs. While the pieces take myriad forms--from Jan Morris's decisive assault on gender-ascribed art to Ursula LeGuin's poem on the myths informing women's writing--many authors here discourse on common if by no means universal themes. They discuss the effects of routine, landscape, children and travel on their work; reading and its influence, and figures of inspiration to them. Of special interest are comments on the imperative to write. Joy Williams puts it: "Assemble the ambulances. Something is going to happen." With its many voices, images and aphorisms--from those of Maxine Kumin to Luisa Valenzuela, from Rita Dove to Elizabeth Jolley--the book is a pleasure and a faithful companion.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Norton
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0393028046
• ISBN 13: 9780393028041
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 235