Arnold Bennett: The Elusive Craft of Writing

Cover: 9788028372927 | The Elusive Craft of Writing | Arnold Bennett | Taschenbuch | Englisch

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In The Elusive Craft of Writing, Arnold Bennett examines literary composition not as a mystical gift but as a discipline of observation, structure, revision, and professional habit. The book's style is characteristically lucid, practical, and urbane, combining the novelist's intimacy with technique and the critic's impatience with vagueness. Situated within the early twentieth-century debate over art, commerce, realism, and authorship, it treats writing as both craft and vocation, illuminating the material conditions behind literary production. Bennett, one of the central figures of Edwardian letters, brought to such reflections a career shaped by journalism, serial publication, theatre, criticism, and the novel. Best known for his Five Towns fiction, he understood the pressures of audience, market, and form from the inside. His own rise from provincial Staffordshire to metropolitan literary prominence gave him a keen sense of discipline, ambition, and the social realities that nourish imaginative work. This book is recommended to readers interested in the mechanics of prose, the history of authorship, and the practical intelligence of a working novelist. It will especially reward writers who value clarity over mystification and students of literature seeking a grounded account of how literary art is made.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2024
Fachbereich:	Erwachsenenbildung
Genre:	Importe
Produktart:	Schulbücher
Rubrik:	Schule & Lernen
Thema:	Volkshochschule
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9788028372927
ISBN-10:	8028372929
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Bennett, Arnold
Hersteller:	Sharp Ink
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Copycat s.r.o., 22, Holesovice, Schnirchova 662, ?-170 00 Prague, kristoferpaetau@gmail.com
Maße:	229 x 152 x 11 mm
Von/Mit:	Arnold Bennett
Erscheinungsdatum:	15.05.2024
Gewicht:	0,27 kg