Jennifer Cognard-Black
Autor de Becoming a Great Essayist
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Obras de Jennifer Cognard-Black
Narrative in the professional age : transatlantic readings of Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Eliot, and Elizabeth Stuart… (2004) 2 copias
[(Advancing Rhetoric)] [By (author) Jennifer Cognard-Black ] published on (November, 2005) (2005) 1 copia
Great American Short Stories: A Guide for Writers and Readers [streaming lectures] — Autor — 1 copia
A Hundred False Starts 1 copia
Short Story Endings 1 copia
American Microfictions 1 copia
Graphic Short Fiction in America 1 copia
Genre Short Fiction in America 1 copia
Plot : What Characters Do Next 1 copia
American Modernists 1 copia
Storytelling and American Mythos 1 copia
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- Obras
- 33
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- 74
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- 3.8
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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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