Voice and Vision: A Guide to Writing History and Other Serious Nonfiction

by Stephen J. Pyne, H. Joseph, Ian Jorge, et al.

Book Overview

It has become commonplace these days to speak of "unpacking" texts. Voice and Vision is a book about packing that prose in the first place. While history is scholarship, it is also art--that is, literature. And while it has no need to emulate fiction, slump into memoir, or become self-referential text, its composition does need to be conscious and informed.

Voice and Vision is for those who wish to understand the ways in which...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674060423
• ISBN13: 9780674060425
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.0"