Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again

Title: Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again
Author: Sven Birkerts
ISBN: 9781555974893
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2007
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Underlining
Number of Pages: 120
Publisher Description: <p><b>The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes will provide a series of sustained examinations of key but sometimes neglected aspects of creative writing by some of contemporary literature's finest practioners.</b> <p/>In <i>The Art of Time in Memoir</i>, critic and memoirist Sven Birkerts examines the human impulse to write about the self. By examining memoirs such as Vladimir Nabokov's <i>Speak, Memory</i>; Virginia Woolf's unfinished <i>A Sketch of the Past</i>; and Mary Karr's <i>The Liars' Club</i>, Birkerts describes the memoirist's essential art of assembling patterns of meaning, stirring to life our own sense of past and present.</p>