Linfield Authors Book Gallery

The Far Edges of the Fourth Genre: An Anthology of Explorations in Creative Nonfiction

The Far Edges of the Fourth Genre: An Anthology of Explorations in Creative Nonfiction

Description

Though creative nonfiction has been around since Montaigne, St. Augustine, and Seneca, we’ve only just begun to ask how this genre works, why it functions the way it does, and where its borders reside. But for each question we ask, another five or ten questions roil to the surface. And each of these questions, it seems, requires a more convoluted series of answers. What’s more, the questions students of creative nonfiction are drawn to during class discussions, the ones they argue the longest and loudest, are the same ideas debated by their professors in the hallways and at the corner bar. In this collection, sixteen essential contemporary creative nonfiction writers reflect on whatever far, dark edge of the genre they find themselves most drawn to. The result is this fascinating anthology that wonders at the historical and contemporary borderlands between fiction and nonfiction; the illusion of time on the page; the mythology of memory; poetry, process, and the use of received forms; the impact of technology on our writerly lives; immersive research and the power of witness; a chronology and collage; and what we write and why we write.

ISBN

9781611861211

Publication Date

2014

Publisher

Michigan State University Press

City

East Lansing

Disciplines

Creative Writing | Nonfiction

Comments

Description and cover image courtesy of Michigan State University Press.

Subject Areas

Creative nonfiction -- Authorship; Essay -- Authorship

Author/Editor Bio

Sean Prentiss is Assistant Professor at Norwich University. He has had essays, poems, and stories published in Brevity, Sycamore Review, Passages North, ISLE, Ascent, River Styx, Spoon River, Nimrod, and many other journals.

Joe Wilkins is Associate Professor of English at Linfield College. He holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Idaho and a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Gonzaga University.

The Far Edges of the Fourth Genre: An Anthology of Explorations in Creative Nonfiction

Find@Linfield

Share

COinS