Authors on writing
Subtitle: metaphors and intellectual labor
By: Barbara Tomlinson.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9781403948953
Subjects: Authorship; Metaphor; Discourse analysis; Authors and readers
Description: "Drawing on some three thousand published interviews with contemporary authors, Authors on Writing: Metaphors and Intellectual Labor reveals new ways of conceiving of writing as intellectual labor. Authors' metaphorical stories about composing highlights not interior worlds but socially situated cultures and apparatuses of authorship."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-220) and index.