Jennifer Cognard-Black
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Kindred hands : letters on writing by British and American women authors, 1865-1935 (2006) 4 exemplaren
Narrative in the professional age : transatlantic readings of Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Eliot, and Elizabeth Stuart… (2004) 2 exemplaren
Discovering the American Short Story 1 exemplaar
Imagery in American Short Fiction 1 exemplaar
[(Advancing Rhetoric)] [By (author) Jennifer Cognard-Black ] published on (November, 2005) (2005) 1 exemplaar
Great American Short Stories: A Guide for Writers and Readers [streaming lectures] — Auteur — 1 exemplaar
A Hundred False Starts 1 exemplaar
Short Story Endings 1 exemplaar
American Microfictions 1 exemplaar
Postmodern Short Fiction in America 1 exemplaar
Graphic Short Fiction in America 1 exemplaar
Genre Short Fiction in America 1 exemplaar
Experimental American Short Stories 1 exemplaar
Style in Traditional American Short Stories 1 exemplaar
Plot : What Characters Do Next 1 exemplaar
The Storytelling Instinct in America 1 exemplaar
Standing Close : The First and Second Person 1 exemplaar
Standing Apart : The Third Person 1 exemplaar
American Dialogue and Interior Monologue 1 exemplaar
“Come in Here” : How Stories Draw Us In 1 exemplaar
The Use of Detail in American Short Fiction 1 exemplaar
Setting or Donnee in American Short Fiction 1 exemplaar
Contemporary American Storytelling 1 exemplaar
American Modernists 1 exemplaar
The Rise of Realism in American Fiction 1 exemplaar
Sentimental Fiction and Social Reform 1 exemplaar
Storytelling and American Mythos 1 exemplaar
Character : Who You Are in the Dark 1 exemplaar
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The content is basic, which in and of itself is fine -- everyone needs to grasp the basics of a subject first. My only gripe here is that I think the title misleads on this point. There are surely a couple intermediate steps between being a shitty essayist and a great one, and sticking 'great' in the title implies something beyond the basics.
Far worse is that it's not engaging in any way (at least to me). I'm also not a big fan of a lecturer drawing so much on their own work. Some is fine, and getting the first-person view of a essayist and their struggles with writing and the reactions to more personal essays is of great value. But Cognard-Black draws upon her own work too much for my tastes.
In the end, this TGC has some good content for beginners willing to push through the tedium, but most essayists with more than a little experience won't get enough from it to offset the negatives.
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