Telling stories
Subtitle: an anthology for writers
By: edited and with introductions by Joyce Carol Oates.
Contributors: Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 733
Subjects: College readers; English language -- Rhetoric; Narration (Rhetoric); Creative writing
Description: Drawn from Joyce Carol Oates's reading list at Princeton University, the pieces collected in Telling Stories provide beginning writers with models and inspiration for their own writing. Oates gathers here a diverse anthology of over one hundred works, including "miniature" narratives, dramatic monologues, poems that tell stories, memoir and diary excerpts, and a generous sampling of classic and contemporary short stories. Throughout, Oates has chosen exemplary writings - by relative newcomers and established authors alike - to delight readers as well as to stimulate students' own creative work. A general introduction and an afterword on the writing workshop offer students encouragement, advice, and exercises for writing. A text for creative writers, an anthology for fiction courses, Telling Stories provides a master's portrait of the art and craft of storytelling.
Notes: Includes index.