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Note: Intro -- Preface -- Praise for Writing Manuals for the Masses -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- List of Figures -- 1 Introduction: Literary Advice from Quill to Keyboard -- Introduction -- The "Origin" of Literary Advice (Antiquity-1846) -- Preliminaries: From Classical Poetics to Professional Advice -- The Disputed Origin of Literary Advice: Edgar Allan Poe's "Philosophy of Composition" -- The Era of the Literary Advice Handbook -- The Bifurcation of Literary Advice: "The Art of Fiction" -- Form and Content of Literary Advice Handbooks from the Era of the Handbook and Beyond -- The Expansion of the Literary Advice Industry -- Literary Advice Moguls -- Advice in Literature -- The Role of Women in the Advice Industry -- 'The Program' and the Rise of the Advice Author as Author -- Creative Writing and Literary Advice -- Interviews and Literary Advice -- Hollywood Gurus and Advice Serials -- The Writing Memoir -- Advice in the Digital Literary Sphere -- How to Read This Book -- References -- Part I From Fictioneering to Wattpad -- 2 Learning Fiction by Subscription: The Art and Business of Literary Advice 1884-1895 -- Introduction -- The Art of Discussing Fiction -- The Story of the Short Story -- Atalanta's School of Fiction -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 "You Will Be Surprised that Fiction Has Become an Art": The Language of Craft and the Legacy of Henry James -- Introduction -- What Is a "Professional" Writer? -- Art as Mystery -- The Writer and the Painter -- The Prefaces -- The Deeply Wondering and the Really Sentient -- The Professional Students -- "History Develops, Art Stands Still" -- References -- 4 "Your Successful Man of Letters Is Your Successful Tradesman": Fiction and the Marketplace in British Author's Guides of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- Introduction. , Author's Guides, Agents, and Yearbooks: The Late-Victorian and Edwardian Literary Advice Industry -- "Novel-Writing Taught in Ten Lessons!": Literary Composition as an Art and Authorship as a Trade -- Challenges and Opportunities for Writers in a Changing Literary Marketplace -- Men of Genius, Literary Value, and the Business Side of Books -- "Prepare for Serious Work": Diligence, Professional Practicalities, and the Rules of the "Art of Fiction" -- Gender, Fiction, and Literary Advice -- References -- 5 "Do You Use a Pencil or a Pen?": Author Interviews as Literary Advice -- Introduction -- "How Writers Work": Literary Advice in the Author Interview -- Prestige and Pencils: The Paris Review Interview -- Author Interviews and Online Literary Advice -- Conclusion -- References -- 6 "Stand Out from the Crowd!": Literary Advice in Online Writing Communities -- Background to Literary Advice Online -- The Rise of Wattpad -- How to Get Ahead on Wattpad -- Off-Site Sources of Advice for Wattpadders -- On-Site Advice and Support -- User Comments -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II Case Studies of Literary Advice -- 7 Tools for Shaping Stories? Visual Plot Models in a Sample of Anglo-American Advice Handbooks -- Introduction -- Visual Plot Models as Central Nodes -- In the Beginning There Was… Aristotle -- A Development of Linear Plot Models: From "Freytag's Pyramid" to "Field's Paradigm" -- A Polar and a Circular Model Both Become Linear -- The Mountain Model, a Synthesis -- Plot Models as Generative Tools with the Hero's Journey -- Conclusion -- References -- 8 The "Ready-Made-Writer" in a Selection of Contemporary Francophone Literary Advice Manuals -- Introduction1 -- The Birth of the Creator -- Body and Energy -- Decor and Characters -- The Studious Apprentice -- Entrepreneur -- Conclusion -- References. , 9 Taking Self-Help Books Seriously: The Informal Aesthetic Education of Writers -- Introduction -- The Extracurriculum of Writing Instruction -- Teachers as Obstacles to Writing Ability -- Advocating for Universal Writing Ability -- The Role of the Unconscious in Writing -- Issues of Control and Creativity -- The Holistic Nature of Writing -- Elbow's Writing Without Teachers: The Informal Affecting the Formal in Aesthetic Education -- Conclusion -- References -- 10 A Pulse Before Shelf Life: Literary Advice on Notebook-Writing as Event -- Introduction -- End-Less Writing: Writing's Event -- Gifted: Creative Receptivity -- Besideness: Making a Difference -- References -- 11 "Writing by Prescription": Creative Writing as Therapy and Personal Development -- Introduction -- Therapeutic Writing: A Longstanding History and a Heterogeneous Field -- Programmed Versus Non-restrictive Writing -- Jessica Kingsley Publishers: Turning Readers into Writers -- Three Therapeutic Writing Oeuvres: Gillie Bolton, Kate Thompson, and Celia Hunt -- Conclusion -- References -- Part III Adopting and Resisting Literary Advice Culture -- 12 Reproduction as Literary Production: Self-Expression and the Index in Kenneth Goldsmith's Uncreative Writing -- Introduction -- Exercises in Uncreativity -- The Logic of the Index -- Self-Expression via Copying Vs. Copying as Self-Expression -- Literary Advice for the Twenty-First Century? -- References -- 13 Creative Writing Crosses the Atlantic: An Attempt at Creating a Minor French Literature -- Introduction -- Creative Writing in France: The Atelier d'écriture -- François Bon's Outils du roman -- Minor Literature in an International Context -- Minor Literature in the French Context -- Conclusion -- References -- 14 "Mostrar, no decir": The Influence of and Resistance Against Workshop Poetics on the Hispanic Literary Field. , Introduction -- A Short History of Creative Writing Advice in the Hispanic World -- From Boom to MFA: The Rising Influence of Creative Writing Programs in Twenty-First-Century Hispanic Literature -- The Impact of Workshop Poetics on Hispanic Literature -- Conclusion -- References -- 15 Work and the Writing Life: Shifts in the Relationship Between 'Work' and 'The Work' in Twenty-First-Century Literary-Advice Memoirs -- The Absorption Narrative: Labor Transformed by Artistic Critique and Vice Versa -- Visions of Autonomous Production: Twentieth-Century Models of Literary Advice -- Caught Between 'Work' and 'the Work': Literary-Advice Memoirs of Late Capitalism -- Conclusion: The Ambivalent Politics of the Literary-Advice Memoir -- Bibliography -- 16 "If You Can Read, You Can Write, or Can You, Really?" -- Introduction -- The "Advicization" of Contemporary Reading/Writing Culture -- Curating Advice in Contemporary Fiction -- Telling Your Story, or Let's Build a Home -- The Empire Strikes Back, or No, You Really Shouldn't Tell Your Story, and the Evils of Graphomania -- Sanctifying Solitude and the Dangers of the Single Story About Writing -- "I Wanted to Start with Truth and End with Art" -- Conclusion: How to Make Literary Fiction Matter in Digital Culture? -- References -- Index.

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Format: 1 online resource (XXII, 412 p. 19 illus., 1 illus. in color.)

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ISBN: 3-030-53614-9

Series Statement: New Directions in Book History,

Content: This open access collection of essays examines the literary advice industry since its emergence in Anglo-American literary culture in the mid-nineteenth century within the context of the professionalization of the literary field and the continued debate on creative writing as art and craft. Often dismissed as commercial and stereotypical by authors and specialists alike, literary advice has nonetheless remained a flourishing business, embodying the unquestioned values of a literary system, but also functioning as a sign of a literary system in transition. Exploring the rise of new online amateur writing cultures in the twenty-first century, this collection of essays considers how literary advice proliferates globally, leading to new forms and genres.

Note: 1. Introduction: Literary Advice from Quill to Keyboard, Anneleen Masschelein -- 2. Learning Fiction by Subscription: The Art and Business of Literary Advice 1884-1895, John Caughey -- 3. “You Will Be Surprised that Fiction Has Become an Art”: The Language of Craft and the Legacy of Henry James, Mary Stewart Atwell -- 4. “Your Successful Man of Letters is Your Successful Tradesman”: Fiction and the Marketplace in the British Author’s Guides of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, Paul Vlitos -- 5. ‘Do You Use a Pencil or a Pen?’: Author Interviews as Literary Advice, Rebecca Roach -- 6. “Stand out from the Crowd!”: Literary Advice in Online Writing Communities, Bronwen Thomas -- 7. Tools for Shaping Stories? Visual Plot Models in a Sample of Anglo-American Advice Handbooks, Liorah Hoek -- 8. The “Ready-Made-Writer” in a Selection of Contemporary Francophone Literary Advice Manuals, Françoise Grauby -- 9. Taking Self-help Books Seriously: The Informal Aesthetic Education of Writers, Alexandria Peary -- 10. A Pulse Before Shelf Life: Literary Advice on Notebook-writing as Event, Arne Vanraes -- 11. ‘Writing by Prescription’: Creative Writing as Therapy and Personal Development, Leni Van Goidsenhoven and Anneleen Masschelein -- 12. Reproduction as Literary Production: Self-expression and the Index in Kenneth Goldsmith’s Uncreative Writing, Ioannis Tsitsovits -- 13. Creative Writing Crosses the Atlantic: An Attempt at Creating a Minor French Literature, Gert-Jan Meyntjens -- 14. “Mostrar, no decir”: The Influence of and Resistance Against Workshop Poetics in the Hispanic Literary Field, Andrés Franco Harnache -- 15. Work and Writing Life: Shifts in the Relationship between ‘Work’ and ‘The Work’ in Twenty-First Century Literary Advice Memoirs, Elizabeth Kovach -- 16. “If You Can Read, You Can Write, Or Can You, Really?, Jim Collins.  . , English

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Format: 1 online resource (XXII, 412 p. 19 illus., 1 illus. in color.)

Edition: 1st ed. 2021.

ISBN: 3-030-53614-9

Series Statement: New Directions in Book History,

Content: This open access collection of essays examines the literary advice industry since its emergence in Anglo-American literary culture in the mid-nineteenth century within the context of the professionalization of the literary field and the continued debate on creative writing as art and craft. Often dismissed as commercial and stereotypical by authors and specialists alike, literary advice has nonetheless remained a flourishing business, embodying the unquestioned values of a literary system, but also functioning as a sign of a literary system in transition. Exploring the rise of new online amateur writing cultures in the twenty-first century, this collection of essays considers how literary advice proliferates globally, leading to new forms and genres.

Note: 1. Introduction: Literary Advice from Quill to Keyboard, Anneleen Masschelein -- 2. Learning Fiction by Subscription: The Art and Business of Literary Advice 1884-1895, John Caughey -- 3. “You Will Be Surprised that Fiction Has Become an Art”: The Language of Craft and the Legacy of Henry James, Mary Stewart Atwell -- 4. “Your Successful Man of Letters is Your Successful Tradesman”: Fiction and the Marketplace in the British Author’s Guides of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, Paul Vlitos -- 5. ‘Do You Use a Pencil or a Pen?’: Author Interviews as Literary Advice, Rebecca Roach -- 6. “Stand out from the Crowd!”: Literary Advice in Online Writing Communities, Bronwen Thomas -- 7. Tools for Shaping Stories? Visual Plot Models in a Sample of Anglo-American Advice Handbooks, Liorah Hoek -- 8. The “Ready-Made-Writer” in a Selection of Contemporary Francophone Literary Advice Manuals, Françoise Grauby -- 9. Taking Self-help Books Seriously: The Informal Aesthetic Education of Writers, Alexandria Peary -- 10. A Pulse Before Shelf Life: Literary Advice on Notebook-writing as Event, Arne Vanraes -- 11. ‘Writing by Prescription’: Creative Writing as Therapy and Personal Development, Leni Van Goidsenhoven and Anneleen Masschelein -- 12. Reproduction as Literary Production: Self-expression and the Index in Kenneth Goldsmith’s Uncreative Writing, Ioannis Tsitsovits -- 13. Creative Writing Crosses the Atlantic: An Attempt at Creating a Minor French Literature, Gert-Jan Meyntjens -- 14. “Mostrar, no decir”: The Influence of and Resistance Against Workshop Poetics in the Hispanic Literary Field, Andrés Franco Harnache -- 15. Work and Writing Life: Shifts in the Relationship between ‘Work’ and ‘The Work’ in Twenty-First Century Literary Advice Memoirs, Elizabeth Kovach -- 16. “If You Can Read, You Can Write, Or Can You, Really?, Jim Collins.  . , English

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Content: This open access collection of essays examines the literary advice industry since its emergence in Anglo-American literary culture in the mid-nineteenth century within the context of the professionalization of the literary field and the continued debate on creative writing as art and craft. Often dismissed as commercial and stereotypical by authors and specialists alike, literary advice has nonetheless remained a flourishing business, embodying the unquestioned values of a literary system, but also functioning as a sign of a literary system in transition. Exploring the rise of new online amateur writing cultures in the twenty-first century, this collection of essays considers how literary advice proliferates globally, leading to new forms and genres.

Note: Includes index. , 1. Introduction: Literary Advice from Quill to Keyboard, Anneleen Masschelein -- 2. Learning Fiction by Subscription: The Art and Business of Literary Advice 1884-1895, John Caughey -- 3. "You Will Be Surprised that Fiction Has Become an Art": The Language of Craft and the Legacy of Henry James, Mary Stewart Atwell -- 4. "Your Successful Man of Letters is Your Successful Tradesman": Fiction and the Marketplace in the British Author's Guides of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, Paul Vlitos -- 5. 'Do You Use a Pencil or a Pen?': Author Interviews as Literary Advice, Rebecca Roach -- 6. "Stand out from the Crowd!": Literary Advice in Online Writing Communities, Bronwen Thomas -- 7. Tools for Shaping Stories? Visual Plot Models in a Sample of Anglo-American Advice Handbooks, Liorah Hoek -- 8. The "Ready-Made-Writer" in a Selection of Contemporary Francophone Literary Advice Manuals, Françoise Grauby -- 9. Taking Self-help Books Seriously: The Informal Aesthetic Education of Writers, Alexandria Peary -- 10. A Pulse Before Shelf Life: Literary Advice on Notebook-writing as Event, Arne Vanraes -- 11. 'Writing by Prescription': Creative Writing as Therapy and Personal Development, Leni Van Goidsenhoven and Anneleen Masschelein -- 12. Reproduction as Literary Production: Self-expression and the Index in Kenneth Goldsmith's Uncreative Writing, Ioannis Tsitsovits -- 13. Creative Writing Crosses the Atlantic: An Attempt at Creating a Minor French Literature, Gert-Jan Meyntjens -- 14. "Mostrar, no decir": The Influence of and Resistance Against Workshop Poetics in the Hispanic Literary Field, Andrés Franco Harnache -- 15. Work and Writing Life: Shifts in the Relationship between 'Work' and 'The Work' in Twenty-First Century Literary Advice Memoirs, Elizabeth Kovach -- 16. "If You Can Read, You Can Write, Or Can You, Really?, Jim Collins.

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Format: 1 online resource (XXII, 412 p. 19 illus., 1 illus. in color.)

Edition: 1st ed. 2021.

ISBN: 3-030-53614-9

Series Statement: New Directions in Book History,

Content: This open access collection of essays examines the literary advice industry since its emergence in Anglo-American literary culture in the mid-nineteenth century within the context of the professionalization of the literary field and the continued debate on creative writing as art and craft. Often dismissed as commercial and stereotypical by authors and specialists alike, literary advice has nonetheless remained a flourishing business, embodying the unquestioned values of a literary system, but also functioning as a sign of a literary system in transition. Exploring the rise of new online amateur writing cultures in the twenty-first century, this collection of essays considers how literary advice proliferates globally, leading to new forms and genres.

Note: 1. Introduction: Literary Advice from Quill to Keyboard, Anneleen Masschelein -- 2. Learning Fiction by Subscription: The Art and Business of Literary Advice 1884-1895, John Caughey -- 3. “You Will Be Surprised that Fiction Has Become an Art”: The Language of Craft and the Legacy of Henry James, Mary Stewart Atwell -- 4. “Your Successful Man of Letters is Your Successful Tradesman”: Fiction and the Marketplace in the British Author’s Guides of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, Paul Vlitos -- 5. ‘Do You Use a Pencil or a Pen?’: Author Interviews as Literary Advice, Rebecca Roach -- 6. “Stand out from the Crowd!”: Literary Advice in Online Writing Communities, Bronwen Thomas -- 7. Tools for Shaping Stories? Visual Plot Models in a Sample of Anglo-American Advice Handbooks, Liorah Hoek -- 8. The “Ready-Made-Writer” in a Selection of Contemporary Francophone Literary Advice Manuals, Françoise Grauby -- 9. Taking Self-help Books Seriously: The Informal Aesthetic Education of Writers, Alexandria Peary -- 10. A Pulse Before Shelf Life: Literary Advice on Notebook-writing as Event, Arne Vanraes -- 11. ‘Writing by Prescription’: Creative Writing as Therapy and Personal Development, Leni Van Goidsenhoven and Anneleen Masschelein -- 12. Reproduction as Literary Production: Self-expression and the Index in Kenneth Goldsmith’s Uncreative Writing, Ioannis Tsitsovits -- 13. Creative Writing Crosses the Atlantic: An Attempt at Creating a Minor French Literature, Gert-Jan Meyntjens -- 14. “Mostrar, no decir”: The Influence of and Resistance Against Workshop Poetics in the Hispanic Literary Field, Andrés Franco Harnache -- 15. Work and Writing Life: Shifts in the Relationship between ‘Work’ and ‘The Work’ in Twenty-First Century Literary Advice Memoirs, Elizabeth Kovach -- 16. “If You Can Read, You Can Write, Or Can You, Really?, Jim Collins.  . , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 3-030-53613-0

Language: English

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-53614-5

UID:

Format: 1 online resource (XXII, 412 p. 19 illus., 1 illus. in color.)

Edition: 1st ed. 2021.

ISBN: 3-030-53614-9

Series Statement: New Directions in Book History,

Content: This open access collection of essays examines the literary advice industry since its emergence in Anglo-American literary culture in the mid-nineteenth century within the context of the professionalization of the literary field and the continued debate on creative writing as art and craft. Often dismissed as commercial and stereotypical by authors and specialists alike, literary advice has nonetheless remained a flourishing business, embodying the unquestioned values of a literary system, but also functioning as a sign of a literary system in transition. Exploring the rise of new online amateur writing cultures in the twenty-first century, this collection of essays considers how literary advice proliferates globally, leading to new forms and genres.

Note: 1. Introduction: Literary Advice from Quill to Keyboard, Anneleen Masschelein -- 2. Learning Fiction by Subscription: The Art and Business of Literary Advice 1884-1895, John Caughey -- 3. “You Will Be Surprised that Fiction Has Become an Art”: The Language of Craft and the Legacy of Henry James, Mary Stewart Atwell -- 4. “Your Successful Man of Letters is Your Successful Tradesman”: Fiction and the Marketplace in the British Author’s Guides of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, Paul Vlitos -- 5. ‘Do You Use a Pencil or a Pen?’: Author Interviews as Literary Advice, Rebecca Roach -- 6. “Stand out from the Crowd!”: Literary Advice in Online Writing Communities, Bronwen Thomas -- 7. Tools for Shaping Stories? Visual Plot Models in a Sample of Anglo-American Advice Handbooks, Liorah Hoek -- 8. The “Ready-Made-Writer” in a Selection of Contemporary Francophone Literary Advice Manuals, Françoise Grauby -- 9. Taking Self-help Books Seriously: The Informal Aesthetic Education of Writers, Alexandria Peary -- 10. A Pulse Before Shelf Life: Literary Advice on Notebook-writing as Event, Arne Vanraes -- 11. ‘Writing by Prescription’: Creative Writing as Therapy and Personal Development, Leni Van Goidsenhoven and Anneleen Masschelein -- 12. Reproduction as Literary Production: Self-expression and the Index in Kenneth Goldsmith’s Uncreative Writing, Ioannis Tsitsovits -- 13. Creative Writing Crosses the Atlantic: An Attempt at Creating a Minor French Literature, Gert-Jan Meyntjens -- 14. “Mostrar, no decir”: The Influence of and Resistance Against Workshop Poetics in the Hispanic Literary Field, Andrés Franco Harnache -- 15. Work and Writing Life: Shifts in the Relationship between ‘Work’ and ‘The Work’ in Twenty-First Century Literary Advice Memoirs, Elizabeth Kovach -- 16. “If You Can Read, You Can Write, Or Can You, Really?, Jim Collins.  . , English

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 412 Seiten).

ISBN: 978-3-030-53614-5

Series Statement: New directions in book history

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-3-030-53613-8

Language: English

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-53614-5

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 412 Seiten).

ISBN: 978-3-030-53614-5

Series Statement: New directions in book history

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Language: English

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-53614-5

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