The writer cannot distinguish between the real and imagined: “Every life lived is also an inner life, a life created.” Is the writer special? Society seems to accord the writer a certain respect. “Who do you think you are?” is the question every writer gets asked, and every writer asks him/herself. (1) Orientation: Who do you think you are? What is “a writer,” and how did I become one? However, to gain full understanding of Atwood’s insights, you should read the book it won’t take you long, and if you are interested in writing or literature, it is worth it. The following are my notes on each lecture. Atwood’s insights are unusual but will ring true to anyone who has felt the urge to write, or indeed, to any creator, I suspect. Indeed, each of her lectures could describe types of story as well as facets of the storyteller (more on that in a later post). Using examples from literature, poetry, and mythology, Atwood positions the writer as six archetypes. The six lectures each address a different aspect of the Writer. This is not a typical writing handbook, dispensing now-cliched advice like “write what you know” and “show, don’t tell.” Rather, Atwood tackles the question of what does it mean to “be a writer?” What is the writer, anyway, and why are writers compelled to write? She ends up posing more questions than she answers. OL675819W Page_number_confidence 84.38 Pages 258 Pdf_module_version 0.0.17 Ppi 300 Republisher_date 20160720105419 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 4111 Scandate 20160614132453 Scanner short book, Negotiating with the Dead, is a collection of six lectures Margaret Atwood gave on writing. Urn:lcp:negotiatingwithd00atwo:epub:4face199-e644-4fba-9b97-07101a09e90c Extramarc Duke University Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier negotiatingwithd00atwo Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t4tj1b119 Invoice 1315 Isbn 0521662605ĩ780521662604 Lccn 2001025135 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-1-g862e Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9284 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Ocr_parameters -l eng Openlibrary OL22542167M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 15:58:09.804558 Bookplateleaf 0006 Boxid IA1102901 Boxid_2 CH1144801 City Cambridge Donor
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