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Availability:In StockContributor:Tracy DaughertySeries:Crux: The Georgia Literary NonfictionPublish date:2017-03-15Pages:200
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Georgia PressISBN-13:9780820350813ISBN-10:820350818UPC:9780820350813Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Memoirs, EssaysSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCDVPMW5CF

With Let Us Build Us a City Tracy Daugherty considers the principles of literary art in a series of essays that focus on the nature of artistic vision and the creative individual's relationship to the world. The book reads like a master class on writing as practice, while performing a deep reading of art and life and looking to discern why liberal education matters so much to our society.

At its core, Let Us Build Us a City is a work of cultural and literary history, combining memoir (of the author's experiences as a student and teacher of literature and writing) with analysis and speculation. Daugherty exploits a variety of forms to explore literary apprenticeship and mentoring, philosophy, politics, metaphysics, and American history.

In particular, Daugherty focuses on the creative impulse and the diverse ways in which individual writers apply their imaginations to their craft. Along the way, he offers multiple lace of creative practice within it. Let Us Build Us a City is a stirring defense and timely renewal of our national literary vision.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Georgia PressISBN-13:9780820350813ISBN-10:820350818UPC:9780820350813Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Memoirs, EssaysSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCDVPMW5CF
TRACY DAUGHERTY is the author of, most recently, The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion. He has also published four novels, six short story collections, and a book of personal essays as well as biographies of Donald Barthelme and Joseph Heller. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English and Creative Writing at Oregon State University.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press

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