Attack of the copula spiders
Subtitle: and other essays on writing
By: Douglas Glover
Publisher: Biblioasis
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Emeryville, Ont
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9781926845463
Subjects: Criticism; Authorship
Table of contents: title: How to write a novel; title: How to write a short story: notes on structure and an exercise; title: Attack of the copula spiders: thoughts on writing well in a post-literate age; title: The drama of grammar; title: The mind of Alice Munro; title: How to read a Mark Anthony Jarman story; title: Memoirs of the undead: Cess Nooteboom's The following story; title: Novels and dreams: Leon Rooke's A good baby; title: A scrupulous fidelity: Thomas Bernhard's The loser; title: Pedro, the uncanny: a note on Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo; title: Before/after history and the novel; title: Don Quixote, Rosemary's baby, Alien, and The French lieutenant's woman: meditations on the ideology of closure and the comforting lie.