Jennifer Cognard-Black
Autor(a) de Becoming a Great Essayist
About the Author
Obras de Jennifer Cognard-Black
Narrative in the professional age : transatlantic readings of Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Eliot, and Elizabeth Stuart… (2004) 2 cópias
Discovering the American Short Story 1 exemplar(es)
Imagery in American Short Fiction 1 exemplar(es)
[(Advancing Rhetoric)] [By (author) Jennifer Cognard-Black ] published on (November, 2005) (2005) 1 exemplar(es)
Great American Short Stories: A Guide for Writers and Readers [streaming lectures] — Autor — 1 exemplar(es)
A Hundred False Starts 1 exemplar(es)
Short Story Endings 1 exemplar(es)
American Microfictions 1 exemplar(es)
Postmodern Short Fiction in America 1 exemplar(es)
Graphic Short Fiction in America 1 exemplar(es)
Genre Short Fiction in America 1 exemplar(es)
Experimental American Short Stories 1 exemplar(es)
Style in Traditional American Short Stories 1 exemplar(es)
Plot : What Characters Do Next 1 exemplar(es)
The Storytelling Instinct in America 1 exemplar(es)
Standing Close : The First and Second Person 1 exemplar(es)
Standing Apart : The Third Person 1 exemplar(es)
American Dialogue and Interior Monologue 1 exemplar(es)
“Come in Here” : How Stories Draw Us In 1 exemplar(es)
The Use of Detail in American Short Fiction 1 exemplar(es)
Setting or Donnee in American Short Fiction 1 exemplar(es)
Contemporary American Storytelling 1 exemplar(es)
American Modernists 1 exemplar(es)
The Rise of Realism in American Fiction 1 exemplar(es)
Sentimental Fiction and Social Reform 1 exemplar(es)
Storytelling and American Mythos 1 exemplar(es)
Character : Who You Are in the Dark 1 exemplar(es)
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Conhecimento Comum
- Sexo
- female
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 33
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 74
- Popularidade
- #238,154
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Resenhas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 16
The content is basic, which in and of itself is fine -- everyone needs to grasp the basics of a subject first. My only gripe here is that I think the title misleads on this point. There are surely a couple intermediate steps between being a shitty essayist and a great one, and sticking 'great' in the title implies something beyond the basics.
Far worse is that it's not engaging in any way (at least to me). I'm also not a big fan of a lecturer drawing so much on their own work. Some is fine, and getting the first-person view of a essayist and their struggles with writing and the reactions to more personal essays is of great value. But Cognard-Black draws upon her own work too much for my tastes.
In the end, this TGC has some good content for beginners willing to push through the tedium, but most essayists with more than a little experience won't get enough from it to offset the negatives.
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