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Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir
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Every time Inventing the Truth appears in a new edition, editor William Zinsser can't help but add to it. The first edition (1987) evolved from a series of New York Public Library talks, for which the mandate was not to lecture about the genre of the memoir but to explain how a specific memoir came to be written. In the book's 1995 edition, Russell Baker, Annie Dillard, Alfred Kazin, and Toni Morrison were joined by Jill Ker Conway, Eileen Simpson, Henry Louis Gates Jr., and Ian Frazier. This time around, Zinsser has added a rich and charming reminiscence by Frank McCourt (Angela's Ashes).
The authors do stick to their assignment: Russell Baker credits his huge family with helping him "learn a lot about humanity from close-up observation"; Jill Ker Conway talks about her desire to write a female memoir that was not a romantic happily-ever-after; and Henry Louis Gates Jr. discusses "want[ing] to write a book that imitated the specialness of black culture when no white people are around." But there is also plenty of advice for writers here, and some general thoughts about the genre. Conway addresses the difficulty of "going back as a historian" and trying to understand "all the things you took as a given when you were a child." Gates warns us to "be prepared for the revelation of things you don't even dream are going to come up." And Annie Dillard contemplates the strangeness of spending "more time writing about [a scene or an event] than you did living it." --Jane Steinberg
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In this perfect companion for anyone beguiled by memoirs or embarking on writing one, nine distinguished authors -- Russell Baker, Jill Ker Conway, Annie Dillard, Ian Frazier, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alfred Kazin, Frank McCourt, Toni Morrison, and Eileen Simpson -- reflect on the writing process.
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Can't Say It Better Than Zin!.......2007-03-17
Zinsser is a Zen master when it comes to memoir writing. The introduction to this book is nothing short of a tour de force. It inspires, articulates, and deconstructs the myths and perils of memoir writing. The title, INVENTING THE TRUTH, is well crafted because the book addresses the ardous task of conflating truth and memory. One caveat this book is not an easy read for high school students; in fact it is nearly inaccessible, however, a teacher or memorist could glean invaluable experience on the craft of memoir writing from the collection. In a college memoir class this book would be and should be a must-have. If this book were to be expanded again, I would suggest including exercises or contemplation questions for the writer,teacher, and student.
So you want to write a memoir?.......2002-06-01
Memoir writers Russell Baker, Annie Dillard, Alfred Kazin, Toni Morrison, and Lewis Thomas share their thoughts on writing memoir. The chapters are taken from a series of talks given on the subject.
The authors point out that memoir is not biography. The hardest thing about writing memoir, they agree, is not deciding what to put in, but what to leave out.
They point to Emerson, Thoreau, Twain, and each other as models of good memoir writers.
Annie Dillard says that she writes memoir to fashion a text. She advises that those who want to preserve memories will avoid writing memoir since the act of writing an event often takes more time than the event itself. She compares writing to taking care of a baby. "You don't take care of a baby out of will-power, you do it out of love," she says. It's the same, she says, with writing.
Capturing Memories.......2001-12-08
Capturing Your Memories
In the book Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Writing a Memoir William Zinsser along with other well renown authors take the reader through the writing process of a memoir.
The book is divided into six sections individually composed by each author. In their own words they describe how to create a memoir that will be interesting, fluid, and accurate. A memoir is not just the facts as they are, but the facts as you experienced them. There are many other pieces of advice through out the book that add to the reader's knowledge of writing a memoir.
William Zinsser is a well renowned author and teacher. He has written and been editor for the New York Herald Tribune, and Life Magazine. Zinsser has also taught non-fiction writing at Yale University. In his book Inventing the Truth Zinsser gathers advice from many talented and experienced authors. They not only offer up advice but also describe their own trials and tribulations throughout the process. From Zinsser's boyhood in Long Island to Thomas's interpretation of evolution the book Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Writing a Memoir gives comfortable and informative lessons that a writer will find useful.
On Writing a Memoir.......2000-12-08
According to Webster, the definition of memoir is "a biographical sketch, usually one written by someone who knows the subject well." It is from the Latin word memoria, meaning memory. But in Inventing the Truth, Annie Dillard says, "Don't hope in a memoir to preserve your memories. If you prize your memories as they are by all means avoid--eschew--writing a memoir" (70). Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir is a sort of instructional anthology composed of six chapters written by six authors. The purpose of this book, edited and introduced by William Zinsser, is to give writers different perspectives on how to write a memoir. If you are writing a memoir, or even just thinking about writing one, this book will be helpful to you. It contains examples of good memoir writing, advice on what to put in and what to leave out, and an overview of the process of writing a memoir. The advice given by William Zinsser and the other five contributors to Inventing the Truth pertains mostly to organizing memories. Annie Dillard's chapter entitled "To Fashion a Text" is very focused on memoir writing, and would not prove useful to the average Joe. However, Lewis Thomas' chapter called "A Long Line of Cells" would be interesting for anyone to read. Unless you are thinking about writing a memoir, this book probably will not entirely interest you.
A good motivator.......2000-10-08
A pleasant read, well written and even inspirational. A good motivator for the writer that needs to connect with other writers. I did find it helpful in terms of creating a concept of *focus* when writing a memoir. Still, if one is looking for help with craft or skill, it has its limitations.
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This introduction to creative nonfiction illustrates the influence of individual voice and narrative strategies on nonfiction prose. Essays from contemporary nonfiction writers such as Henry Louis Gates, Norma Elia Cantú, Pico Iyer, Joan Didion, and others are integrated directly into the text to illustrate concepts.
Individual chapters are devoted to detail and description, characterization and scene, distinctive voice, intimate point-of-view, and the various ways in which writers discover the significance or universality of their work.
For writers wanting to explore creative nonfiction.
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For Readers and Writers.......2007-01-23
Dinty Moore's The Truth of the Matter would be worth ever cent just for the anthology selections, which feature the best of the best narrative non-fiction writers. Putting down these wonderful stories is difficult but also worthwhile because the step-by-step instructions, assignments and revision techniques featured in the first part of the book are the most helpful I've ever discovered. Mr. Moore, like any good writer, is able to "show" vs. "tell" writers how to apply the techniques that matter.
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- A very important book
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Classic introduction to objectives and methods of schools of empiricism and linguistic analysis, especially of the logical positivism derived from the Vienna Circle. Topics: elimination of metaphysics, function of philosophy, nature of philosophical analysis, the a priori, truth and probability, critique of ethics and theology, self and the common world, more.
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A very important book.......2006-11-04
Ayer is gifted as a clear, precise writer.
Agree or disagree with Ayer, this is a book every contemporary analytic philosopher should read.
A Crazy Classic.......2006-05-03
Ayer's "Language, Truth and Logic" is written clearly and passionately. It electrified and shocked its audience, and became one of the most influential pieces of analytic philosophy in the twentieth century. And it was almost entirely mistaken.
Ayer articulates an extreme empiricist theory according to which all literally meaningful statements are either analytic or empirically verifiable. The theory is supposed to resolve or dissolve various philosophical disputes by showing that they are about statements that are literally meaningless (like gibberish that is neither true nor false).
Ethical statements are argued to be literally meaningless, while functioning primarily to express the subject's feelings. Statements about God and metaphysics are also rejected as literally meaningless. Other topics covered include the nature of truth, probability, personal identity, the material world and philosophical analysis.
Along with logical empiricism or positivism generally, Ayer's theory is not very popular anymore, and it's hard to understand why it ever was, given the extensive (and to my mind often quite obvious) criticism it deserves and has received.
Nevertheless, "Language, Truth and Logic" does a better job of articulating and explaining a version of logical empiricism than does any other work that I am aware of, and given its influence, it is of historical interest.
My edition of this book is the Penguin edition (2001), though this review may be posted for other editions of "Language, Truth and Logic" as are other reviews. My edition is nicely set forth, and includes as an appendix what I think has sometimes been published as the preface to the second edition of the book. It also includes a very brief introduction to Ayer, the book and its influence.
A Classic Discussion of Positivist Thought.......2006-03-16
Language, Truth and Logic by Alfred J. Ayer was originally published in 1936. The current text published by Dover is a re-release of the 1946 edition - unchanged from the original except for an additional introduction by the author. Ayer is a well known and respected mid-twentieth century philosopher.
Language, Truth and Logic is the first detailed English work articulating the logical positivist thought of the Vienna Circle. Logical positivism major focus was on the issue of what constituted a meaningful statement and subsequently what was the proper role of philosophy. In the positivist view meaningful statement were either tautologies (statements that are true by definition e.g. mathematical truths) or propositions that could be proved/disproved by empirical investigation. They argued that propositions that did not adhere to these criterion were meaningless or non-sense (questions of religion and ethics would fall into this category). As a result of this restrictive interpretation of truth/knowledge they saw philosophical discourse relegated to a largely logical-linguistic role - as opposed to any type of metaphysical speculation.
The genesis of Positivist thought can be found in the early twentieth century works of Russell and Wittgenstein. Although this school of thought continues to have some advocates its popularity has declined markedly during the latter part of the twentieth century. Logical positivism demise stemmed from a range of reasons, not the least of which was its limited intuitive appeal and its apparent lack of internal consistency. With regard to the first point, to some, positivism seemed to artificially remove many of life's most important issues from discussion; e.g. ethics, God and beauty. While from a philosophical perspective positivism appeared to be self referentially inconsistent, i.e. its assertions appeared not to meet its own criterion (i.e. the assertion of what was a meaningful statement was itself not meaningful). Positivism's advocates have attempted to escape this latter charge - but these efforts have been largely unsuccessful.
Despite the fact that Logical Positivism has fallen out of favor (some would say relegated to the dust bin of history), Ayer's remains a classic exposition of this important movement in twentieth century philosophy. I recommend it to all serious students of philosophy.
A superb book about logical positivism.......2005-10-18
Ayer is simply fed up with metaphysical and religious claims that appear to be nonsensical. So he makes us ask the following question about any claim we feel is hard to interpret:
"Would any observations be relevant to the determination of its truth or falsehood?"
That gets us away from having to worry about what otherwise might appear to be cognitive remarks, such as "god exists."
If it is then claimed that there is indeed evidence that would be relevant, we start to interpret claims in that light. If we are told that the existence of thunder and lightning shows that god exists, we can interpret the statement "god exists" as being equivalent to "sometimes, there is thunder and lightning." That, and no more.
The idea is to connect claims to verification, and to connect meaningfulness (or cognitivity) to verifiability.
Plenty of people say that the logical positivists are Wrong, or that Ayer is Wrong. But that is silly. What they have given us is a method for arguing about potentially ambiguous statements. How we use this method is up to us. Saying that this method is Wrong is preposterous. We merely need to figure out when it is appropriate to use it and how to do so.
In this book, we learn a little about logic, and we get some good training in the law of excluded middle. That law says that a proposition has to be either true or false. It is not possible that neither it nor its contradictory are true. We may not be able to tell if it is true or false. But if we see two statements which both appear to be true, they can't truly be contradictory. Ayer gives some good examples of this and of several other elements of logic.
This is indeed a classic work. One can read it in a matter of hours, and it is well worth it for anyone who wants to use logic to seek answers to questions.
Language, Truth and Logic by A.J. Ayer.......2005-07-05
I know this logical positivist approach to life and thinking is supposed to be out of date, generally considered false, but still, it has its attractive side, it has a common-sense feeling to it, it has a kind of clear sharp-edge quality, it is sort of seductive. It's like something I could use in daily life.
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Christopher Hookway presents a series of studies of themes from the work of the great American philosopher Charles S. Peirce (1839-1913), often described as the founder of pragmatism. These themes concern how we are able to investigate the world rationally; and, as Hookway shows, the ideas introduced by Peirce can still make fruitful contributions to research in philosophy, logic and semiotics. After an extended examination of Peirce's account of truth, and of its relations to his ideas about logic, reference, and representation, Hookway discusses his claims that rationality requires a system of 'scientific metaphysics'. The second half of the book studies the role of common sense, sentiments, and emotions in rationality. It concludes with discussions of Peirce's approach to religious belief and the role of pragmatism in his thought. These compelling essays present the fruits of fifteen years of research on Peirce, but do so in a way that makes his ideas accessible and relevant for philosophers who are not specialists in the history of American thought. The introduction offers a general sketch of Peirce's philosophy as a way into the book for such readers, and draws together the themes of the essays.
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In a successful action adventure script, there are more than just hot pursuits and hotheaded slugfests. This book investigates the screenwriting principles that define the content and style of the most popular film genre.
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Misleading and unorganized.......2007-04-18
This book seems to be written by amatures!
It is unorganized, I could not follow the subject that the author is explaining.
It is a research book rather that intended for eduaction.
If you want to write a film, please ignore this book.
If you are a regular movie goer, take it, if you have a spare of 10 $.Probably you will know more about the dynamics of the action film
Don't Waste Your Money.......2003-06-19
The positive reviews here obviously come from Hicks' pals (check out his website). The book is poorly-written, incoherent, and gives no specific (or recognizable) advice on how to write an action film. It is basically a rambling (and very odd)discourse on the history of war movies.
I can highly recommend Tobin, Epstein, Martell, and Walker if you want to learn how to write action--or any other--films.
A lot of fluff.......2002-12-08
Not a lot of substance here. I did not find this book at all useful, a waste of money over all. A lot of talk about nothing specific, writer wonders around willy nilly, and no real how tos. Information such as formatting of action elements, or just how specific you should be when writing action scenes would have been much better served here, but alas, not to be. Books such as Crafty Screenwriting or Screenwriters Bible go much, much further.
Want to understand the Action Adventure Genre? This is it!.......2002-05-03
If you want to understand the Action Adventure Genre, this is THE book. Great models, insights, rules to use or break.
Neill Hicks is a screenwriter who's written scripts that have been made into successful hit movies -- Rumble in The Bronx, First Strike. There are a lot of books on screenwriting written by people who are still trying to see their script go to production, let alone be a hit. This book's wisdom, insight and practial observations and advice shows why Hicks made it.
He has a very nice across genre model of protagonist characteristics which he also mentioned more briefly in his previous book, Screenwriting 101-- another excellent source.
A straightforward, sensible, "user friendly" primer.......2002-04-09
Writing The Action-Adventure Film: The Moment Of Truth by professional screenwriter Neill D. Hicks ("Rumble in the Bronx"; "First Strike") is a straightforward, sensible, "user friendly" primer for creating a solid screenplay specifically for one of the most popular movie genres in America. Individual chapters specifically address issues of characterization, plot structure, pitfalls, and the strengths of the Action-Adventure film genre, as well as what the audience expects when they go to see the latest action movie. If you are contemplating, or already involved in, scripting an Action-Adventure screenplay, then give Neill Hicks' Writing The Action-Adventure Film an immediate and careful reading.
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Experience the Dark Side of the English Language
What sensitivities are you secretly offending when you use the words poppycock, bonfire, and porcelain? What political incorrectness are you courting when you describe someone or something as ethnic? Who have you insulted, what sensitivity have you jostled, what breach of propriety have you committed when you use such remarkably innocent words as butterfly, gymnasium, and fizzle?
Unfortunate English uncovers older meanings of words that are out of joint with almost everyone's sense of propriety--word histories that reveal the deintensification of the disgusting, the generalization of the ribald, the mutation of the offensive, and occasionally the sensationalizing of the innocent.
So open the book and start having fun ... or maybe you shouldn't, considering that fun originally meant ... well, something different.
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Poorly organized.......2007-08-31
The author has made a very interesting collection of words whose origins conflict with the current meaning of those words, often diametrically opposite to their current meaning. He explains shifts in meaning well, but could often do more in the way of explaining the words' origins. The book's chapters are categories, e.g. foodstuffs, but the book's principal weakness is that the words are not alphabetized within their categories and each entry could be about twice as long; too much of the story is omitted.
UNFORTUNATE ENGLISH is a fun way of absorbing the changing histories and meanings of words........2007-03-12
From political incorrectness to offensive expletives of the post, UNFORTUNATE ENGLISH draws some important connections between the older meanings of words and their modern usage, covering both literary and social history in the process. Lively chapters provide informative yet fun histories of selected words and their evolution, from the Old English meaning of 'pretty' as 'artful, clever' to the misinterpretation of 'corsage' today, UNFORTUNATE ENGLISH is a fun way of absorbing the changing histories and meanings of words.
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A great find for all unicorn admirers.......2005-03-06
This is a beautifully composed and illustrated manuscript from an obscure monastery in late Medieval Europe, combining "Medieval style mysticism" with "Renaissance style inquiry" to present a work dedicated to the arcane lore of the unicorn. Selected pages of the manuscript are reproduced (with amazing drawings) and the Latin translated. What I liked most was the layout and atmosphere of the drawings and text which makes a few thousand words and dozen pictures into a great book. A great find!
Believing is Seeing.......2001-07-03
I read this book very many years ago and it is still a treasured possesion in our home. I was a seeker, and I have found the truth and beauty of the unicorn. I believe !
A great book!.......1999-08-02
A magnificent book telling the origin of the unicorns and it's wonders. Highly recomended! Specially if your a unicorn lover! :D
A wonderful alegory of Gnostic Universal Truth.......1998-02-26
I loved it. It is a wonderful story, whether it be fiction or not. It is symbolically the story of a seeker of Truth whose messenger is the unicorn. I recommend it to anyone who seriously seeks Universal Truth.
A treasure trove of beautiful Unicorn artwork and more........1998-01-22
Mr. Green has provided a sumptuous feast of color illustrations of the mystical Unicorn in a wide variety of settings, and with the accompanying original text, transports one's imagination to an enchanted, magical land. Though the editions of this book as of this writing are out of print, it is well worth the effort to locate a copy - I prefer the earlier edition where the illustrations were in their original smaller but more vivid appearance. A lovely book throughout.
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Truth, Language, and History is the much-anticipated final volume of Donald Davidson's philosophical writings. In the four groups of essays that comprise it, Davidson continues to explore the themes that occupied him for more than fifty years: the relations between language and the world; speaker intention and linguistic meaning; language and mind; mind and body; mind and world; mind and other minds. He asks: what is the role of the concept of truth in these explorations? And, can a scientific world view make room for human thought without reducing it to something material and mechanistic? Davidson's underlying picture, which can be seen in many of these essays, is that we are acquainted directly with the world, not indirectly via some intermediary such as sense-data, representations, or language itself; that thought emerges in the first place through interpersonal communication in a shared material world, and continues to develop as we engage each other in dialogue; and that language depends on communication, not vice versa. This is the triangulating situation - two creatures communicating about a common world - about which Davidson has written elsewhere. As for the mind-body relation: our ontology need posit nothing more that material objects and events; but as explainers we require two mutually irreducible vocabularies: mind and body. In the last six essays Davidson finds interconnections between his own views and those of some of the major philosophers of the past. Including a new introduction by his widow, Marcia Cavell, this volume completes Donald Davidson's colossal intellectual legacy.
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Donald Davidson: Meaning, Truth, Language, and Reality
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Ernest Lepore and Kirk Ludwig present the definitive critical exposition of the philosophical system of Donald Davidson (1917-2003). Davidson's ideas had a deep and broad influence in the central areas of philosophy; he presented them in brilliant essays over four decades, but never set out explicitly the overarching scheme in which they all have their place. Lepore's and Ludwig's book will therefore be the key work, besides Davidson's own, for understanding one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century.
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Subject to Change: The Lessons of Latin American Women's Testimonio for Truth, Fiction, and Theory (North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literature)
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By analyzing testimonial writing, works of fiction, and critical theory, Joanna Bartow examines the self-representation of testimonial subjects. She questions limits on reading testimonio that until recently have delegitimated the testimonial subject's autonomy. In addition, Bartow shows the importance of a feminist perspective on testimonio, a perspective met with some resistance. In specific ways, feminist theory sheds light on the construction of the testimonial subject, and testimonial writing highlights questions of agency across differences in feminist theory. Subject to Change does not approach testimonial writing as raw material for theory, but rather reads Latin American testimonio--and the testimonial speaking subject--as an equally sophisticated interlocutor in debates on difference.
Bartow explores theories of violence, sacrifice, displacement, nomadism, and female identity through works by Rigoberta Menchú, Carolina Maria de Jesus, Elena Poniatowska, Clarice Lispector, and Diamela Eltit.
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